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What we need most is something easy to set up and use. The whole point of a social network is that other people are on it. Too many of these P2P networks need

by panic 11y ago

What we need most is something easy to set up and use. The whole point of a social network is that other people are on it. Too many of these P2P networks need you to know how to use a command line, install a bunch of auxiliary packages, manually generate keys, or hunt down an active server in a federated network.

ekianjo 11y ago
Freedom always requires some effort. Because its never the easiest path to take.
- zardo 11y ago
  Then the vast majority of people won't get to have it.
  - tremon 11y ago
    Then the vast majority of people don't deserve that freedom. The sad thing is, in today's world, that it means that the minority that really needs that freedom can't have it either.
clemensley 11y ago
While still a work in progress, the guys at Datt (Decentralize All The Things) are working on a decentralized Reddit alternative that will "run in a web browser and can be used as easily as any web app". What I find interesting about that project is that there are plans to integrate payments. All successful decentralized applications are based on an implicit economic model (like trading data for data in BitTorrent). Without payment integration these systems are using a barter instead of a market system. When decentralized apps start to integrate payment systems they will move from barter to market economies, which will unleash a new wave of innovation imo. Sources on Datt: http://datt.co/ http://datt.co/ https://github.com/dattnetwork/datt/blob/master/docs/general/plan.md https://github.com/dattnetwork/datt/blob/master/docs/general...
- hellbanner 11y ago
  "Although it is common for companies to build products that lock-in users at a protocol level, we believe it is better that people use our products and services because they get value from them, rather than because we have built a barrier to exit. If users are not choosing to use our products or services, this is a valuable sign that we are not building the right thing." Wow.
- juanpabloaj 11y ago
  A few weeks ago, I made this small experiment https://github.com/juanpabloaj/markdowntorrent https://github.com/juanpabloaj/markdowntorrent , distributed markdown content in http over bittorrent

by panic 11y ago

ekianjo 11y ago

Freedom always requires some effort. Because its never the easiest path to take.

zardo 11y ago
Then the vast majority of people won't get to have it.
- tremon 11y ago
  Then the vast majority of people don't deserve that freedom. The sad thing is, in today's world, that it means that the minority that really needs that freedom can't have it either.

clemensley 11y ago

While still a work in progress, the guys at Datt (Decentralize All The Things) are working on a decentralized Reddit alternative that will "run in a web browser and can be used as easily as any web app". What I find interesting about that project is that there are plans to integrate payments. All successful decentralized applications are based on an implicit economic model (like trading data for data in BitTorrent). Without payment integration these systems are using a barter instead of a market system. When decentralized apps start to integrate payment systems they will move from barter to market economies, which will unleash a new wave of innovation imo. Sources on Datt: http://datt.co/ http://datt.co/ https://github.com/dattnetwork/datt/blob/master/docs/general/plan.md https://github.com/dattnetwork/datt/blob/master/docs/general...

hellbanner 11y ago
"Although it is common for companies to build products that lock-in users at a protocol level, we believe it is better that people use our products and services because they get value from them, rather than because we have built a barrier to exit. If users are not choosing to use our products or services, this is a valuable sign that we are not building the right thing." Wow.
juanpabloaj 11y ago
A few weeks ago, I made this small experiment https://github.com/juanpabloaj/markdowntorrent https://github.com/juanpabloaj/markdowntorrent , distributed markdown content in http over bittorrent