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> I am thinking about working on a competing project, since I have many ideas on how this can be done better. This, kids, is the biggest problem we face today.

> I am thinking about working on a competing project, since I have many ideas on how this can be done better. This, kids, is the biggest problem we face today. Whenever someone needs something out of something that doesn't offer it, a competing product is created. Even if your product truly is better, a compromise is born. People who use your product will miss the community and content of Medium, and people who use Medium will miss the benefits of your product. Even if 50% of Medium users switch to your new product, you're both losers. The Medium community won't be as good as it used to, and your community won't be as good as Medium's used to be. Until we move away from the application/website/service paradigm, this problem will remain. Fragmentation will continue to hurt everyone. What we need is a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without introducing competition that leads to fragmentation. Too bad people don't know they want this yet.

trcollinson 11y ago
I am sure you are somewhat correct that people don't know that they want this. However, there is more to it than that. This is actually a very hard problem to solve. How exactly do you propose we create a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without leading to competition. This seems like a pipe dream.
- miguelrochefort 11y ago
  > This is actually a very hard problem to solve. It's not difficult to solve. It's just that nobody considers it to be a problem that deserves being solved. If the challenge was in solving it, surely people would at least be talking about its existence. > How exactly do you propose we create a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without leading to competition. - The protagonist: Semantic web - The antagonist: Privacy We need more semantics and less privacy. Together, we can create a more efficient communication platform. That's the base of the platform. Then, all we need is a predicate-orientated UI, intents as contracts, and IoT sensors. All of this has been known for decades. One would need to live under a rock not to know this. How we got where we are today really is a mystery.
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timdavila 11y ago
> What we need is a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without introducing competition that leads to fragmentation. Too bad people don't know they want this yet. It exists, and it's called RSS. But it's much easier to make money in a walled garden, so that's what we have.

trcollinson 11y ago

I am sure you are somewhat correct that people don't know that they want this. However, there is more to it than that. This is actually a very hard problem to solve. How exactly do you propose we create a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without leading to competition. This seems like a pipe dream.

miguelrochefort 11y ago
> This is actually a very hard problem to solve. It's not difficult to solve. It's just that nobody considers it to be a problem that deserves being solved. If the challenge was in solving it, surely people would at least be talking about its existence. > How exactly do you propose we create a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without leading to competition. - The protagonist: Semantic web - The antagonist: Privacy We need more semantics and less privacy. Together, we can create a more efficient communication platform. That's the base of the platform. Then, all we need is a predicate-orientated UI, intents as contracts, and IoT sensors. All of this has been known for decades. One would need to live under a rock not to know this. How we got where we are today really is a mystery.
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timdavila 11y ago

> What we need is a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without introducing competition that leads to fragmentation. Too bad people don't know they want this yet. It exists, and it's called RSS. But it's much easier to make money in a walled garden, so that's what we have.