3 comments

  • Kye13 hours ago
    This started as a reply to a comment someone posted in a recent thread[0] saying, roughly, no one cares about decentralization. My reply was turning into a blog post with all the angles I was trying to cover, so I went with it.

    People have discussed the portability problem for ages--"walled garden" as a tech concept goes at least as far back as AOL--but all the solutions so far depend on the good graces of the very thing that's likely to create the situation where you need it. I can't run a Google Takeout if a stray cosmic ray causes a chain of events that destroys my account, for example.

    I want more companies to start taking the approach Bluesky has where the data is designed to outlive the system.

    [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952994

    • ranger_danger12 hours ago
      I think this title applies to just about everything in society today. Nobody has figured out a solution to getting people to care about something until the moment it personally affects them. I guess most people are inherently selfish in that way.
      • add-sub-mul-div12 hours ago
        Is it selfishness or is it that there's an unending list of things that could affect us and go wrong compared to simpler times and no one can defend against all of them so we do our best to get by, spending our limited attention how we can, and hope that when something goes wrong we don't also have to listen to smug hindsight from people who are not currently dealing with one of the many things they're not defending against?
  • jauntywundrkind5 hours ago
    This is a geometric estimation of value but it misses what decentralization really enables, which is exponential growth & exploration of capability. If it really is decentralized. If people are playing with it on their own edges, growing their own endpoints.
  • not_your_vase13 hours ago
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