Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
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Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
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Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
#3The narrative for the last few years, at least in the mainstream media, is that Google Facebook Twitter Microsoft et al. are too big for anyone else to replace them. It's the old "inevitability" argument - if your new thing gets too big, they'll just buy you up.
Let's hope people continue to try to create services that a big percentage of people use and then resist to sell to the big data companies.
Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
#4The narrative for the last few years, at least in the mainstream media, is that Google Facebook Twitter Microsoft et al. are too big for anyone else to replace them. It's the old "inevitability" argument - if your new thing gets too big, they'll just buy you up. Let's hope people continue to try to create services that a big percentage of people use and then resist to sell to the big data companies.
I loved the web in the early mid-2000s. Web 2.0 so many startups, so many ideas, so many failures. It was great. Lots more hope than what is out there right now.
Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
#5The narrative for the last few years, at least in the mainstream media, is that Google Facebook Twitter Microsoft et al. are too big for anyone else to replace them. It's the old "inevitability" argument - if your new thing gets too big, they'll just buy you up. Let's hope people continue to try to create services that a big percentage of people use and then resist to sell to the big data companies.
This probably won't be a popular opinion, but it seems like Google/Facebook/etc are entrenched too deeply in this incarnation of the web to be displaced any time soon.
They seem to understand where they are too - it goes beyond just buying out competitors. Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.
Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
#6The narrative for the last few years, at least in the mainstream media, is that Google Facebook Twitter Microsoft et al. are too big for anyone else to replace them. It's the old "inevitability" argument - if your new thing gets too big, they'll just buy you up. Let's hope people continue to try to create services that a big percentage of people use and then resist to sell to the big data companies.
This probably won't be a popular opinion, but it seems like Google/Facebook/etc are entrenched too deeply in this incarnation of the web to be displaced any time soon. They seem to understand where they are too - it goes beyond just buying out competitors. Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.
> Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.
Which was a spectacular failure...
Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
#7The narrative for the last few years, at least in the mainstream media, is that Google Facebook Twitter Microsoft et al. are too big for anyone else to replace them. It's the old "inevitability" argument - if your new thing gets too big, they'll just buy you up. Let's hope people continue to try to create services that a big percentage of people use and then resist to sell to the big data companies.
This probably won't be a popular opinion, but it seems like Google/Facebook/etc are entrenched too deeply in this incarnation of the web to be displaced any time soon. They seem to understand where they are too - it goes beyond just buying out competitors. Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.
In the short term, you are likely right. But do you remember the days when some folks thought society might not need anything more than CompuServe, prodigy, earthling.net, aol? Long term I am hopeful about decentralization.
Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
This probably won't be a popular opinion, but it seems like Google/Facebook/etc are entrenched too deeply in this incarnation of the web to be displaced any time soon. They seem to understand where they are too - it goes beyond just buying out competitors. Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.
> Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India. Which was a spectacular failure...
For now.
Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
This probably won't be a popular opinion, but it seems like Google/Facebook/etc are entrenched too deeply in this incarnation of the web to be displaced any time soon. They seem to understand where they are too - it goes beyond just buying out competitors. Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.
> Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India. Which was a spectacular failure...
Right. My point was more that they're willing to go to some fairly extreme measures to try insuring their market dominance.
Re: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
This probably won't be a popular opinion, but it seems like Google/Facebook/etc are entrenched too deeply in this incarnation of the web to be displaced any time soon. They seem to understand where they are too - it goes beyond just buying out competitors. Look at Facebook's Internet Lite plan for India.
In the short term, you are likely right. But do you remember the days when some folks thought society might not need anything more than CompuServe, prodigy, earthling.net, aol? Long term I am hopeful about decentralization.
I'd definitely like to think so - and in practice, I've done more of running my own infrastructure recently. But what about those who're stuck under capped internet plans? What about the people whose interest in computing begins and ends with owning a smartphone?