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what's really holding back the explosion of trustless, decentralized, secure, p2p applications is the very people using the internet. Most people don't give a r
by jorgecurio 11y ago
what's really holding back the explosion of trustless, decentralized, secure, p2p applications is the very people using the internet. Most people don't give a rats ass or even have the capacity to appreciate something like this and what's going on in the background and why it matters.
All it takes is some teeny boppers like a snapchat demographic to adopt new technology. Facebook, twitter, all worked because we were all young once and so was everyone around us.
Some applications by nature will not be possible such as Google but one can dream right? A decentralized, distributed Google that's as good as the real thing but without any of the inherent creepiness? Duckduckgo is a real market reaction to the ongoing battle between politics and technology, but it just isn't good enough as the real thing.
I think that all in all, decentralizing applications mean a completely new paradigm change in how we value the end user. No longer is a browser fingerprint of some schmuck an exploitable piece of data by advertisers, government bodies.
I believe decentralization movement is happening now things are moving far far faster than what I had expected, really underestimated how quickly adoption is measured on the internet...in months if not a year, people's habit drastically change, suddenly a new monster appears and everyone loses it.
- arahant7 11y agoEvery event like the lavabit shutdown, the sybil attack on Tor and even the current Apple issue will add further push to the decentralization movement. Hopefully in the next year or two we will see many completely surveillance proof systems come up.