Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
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#2Made good points but missed the fact that social networks like Facebook and Google started like decentralised networks today.
In the Philippines, Facebook wasn't popular at all when Friendster and MySpace were kicking. It was only after the demise of Friendster, and the MySpace was forgotten, that Facebook gained attention.
It's similar for decentralised networks.
Secondly, decentralised networks are good as it is. It does not have to be the "next Facebook" or the "next Twitter", although many such networks and writers dubbed these as such. Slow growth and adoption is better than an explosive one.
These networks are being developed generally for free and offered for free, with no ads whatsoever even. The developers are few and they do it during their free time. Thus a slow adoption is to its advantage.
I use decentralized networks, even used to run my own instance.
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#3What short sighted click bait. Steem has already solved or partially solved most of these problems and we haven't even scratched the service. Read the Steem white paper [1] if you want your mind blown.
[1] https://steem.io
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#5GNU Social is low traffic, but it's alive and well.
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#6Like email or Google Docs? LOL.
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#7None of the reasons they give -- difficulty of user acquisition, conflict between security and convenience, curation, or economies of scale -- are fundamental obstacles to making a decentralized social network. Mastodon has found some success despite facing the same problems.
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#8Like email or Google Docs? LOL.
Google Docs is centralized. Maybe you meant Google Reader ?
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#9None of the reasons they give -- difficulty of user acquisition, conflict between security and convenience, curation, or economies of scale -- are fundamental obstacles to making a decentralized social network. Mastodon has found some success despite facing the same problems.
Mastodon is not successful by any metric compared with even the smallest social networks, let alone the giants
Re: Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
#10What short sighted click bait. Steem has already solved or partially solved most of these problems and we haven't even scratched the service. Read the Steem white paper [1] if you want your mind blown. [1] https://steem.io
Now if we could only solve the shilling problem on social networks.
Your whitepaper blew my mind in trying to bootstrap YACC via the hook of a decentralized social network. I'd say odds of long-term success are zero here, but points for originality.