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Domain: decentralize.today. Published on: Medium. Seriously, it isn't THAT hard to at least host your blog outside the centralized disservices. You could argue

Domain: decentralize.today. Published on: Medium. Seriously, it isn't THAT hard to at least host your blog outside the centralized disservices. You could argue that reach is negatively affected. It probably is. But if everybody (and that includes the outlets promoting decentralization) just swallows the bait, how can things ever change? (Wo)man up!

pjmlp 10y ago
Having been raised in a country enjoying the first winds of freedom after a dictatorship of 44 years, I wonder how serious this kind of blog posts are. Sometimes they look just doing activism from the couch.
- maglavaitss 10y ago
  Anything that raises a flag and makes people think and consider alternatives to FB, Google, printed money, etc, is good activism. Whether it's from the couch or the armchair, is irrelevant.
  - pjc50 10y ago
    FB, Google, printed money One of these things is not like the others.
    - iamdave 10y ago
      I don't think their point was to make precise and completely congruent analogues of these three topics.
      - pjc50 10y ago
        It's more that I don't want sensible concerns about privacy in online services diluted by monetary theory that's at best "fringe".
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        Hondor 10y ago
        The article identifies the risk that printed money will disappear, replaced with a few large credit card companies and banks so the government can monitor everyone's use of money. Since we're clearly already heading in that direction bit by bit, I wouldn't call it a fringe theory.
        zanny 10y ago
        It is only fringe / extremist / conspiracy theorist when its a problem I don't personally have (or have not exerted the mental energy to fully understand). If it is affecting my life, it is serious mainstream business we need to take seriously. That is a fundamental problem with online discourse. People put on blinders on singular crusades when reality is the combined effects of many, many forces influencing one another. Topically, the anti-encryption movement by governments is tied to broader totalitarian leanings by many traditionally republican states in the west, which has hundreds of influential aspects in all kinds of fields of business and society. And those leanings have correlations in everything from fearmongering to economic uncertainty to long running campaigns by certain interests that have lasted decades. And then we get trapped in this rat hole of arguing over what is "serious" or meaningful, when in hindsight we can historically recognize almost all of history is the combined effect of many influencing factors not apparent at that moment in the past.
    - patrickaljord 10y ago
      Yeah, one of these are being forced upon us by guns.
  - GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
    Printed money as opposed to what? Printed money is far better from a privacy standpoint than electronic money. And no, bitcoin or similar is not going to be a realistic replacement. Neither is money backed by gold or the element or compound of your choice.
- bogomipz 10y ago
  What do you not find serious about it?. The author is sighting actual examples of behavior that they find concerning. Do you doubt the veracity of these examples? Also Why does it matter where activism is conducted from?
natch 10y ago
Maybe they're not yet perfect, but kudos to them for at least decoupling services so they keep more flexibility to move anywhere.
mSparks 10y ago
Its not even a real article. Just some mindless repetition of some braindead cia propoganda against foreign governments being used to promote a new crypto currency called shadowcash. Yawn.
mastazi 10y ago
Maybe the author should give a look at https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ - there are a lot of decentralised blog engines around.
- nebulon 10y ago
  You could also checkout https://cloudron.io https://cloudron.io we do try to make it a lot more user friendly and approachable to self-host your blog and lots of other app categories. I think once self-hosting such apps doesn't require much technical knowledge anymore, it removes a lot of friction for users.
  - mastazi 10y ago
    Yes I really like Cloudron, it's one of the best possible solutions to introduce less technical people to self hosting

pjmlp 10y ago

Having been raised in a country enjoying the first winds of freedom after a dictatorship of 44 years, I wonder how serious this kind of blog posts are. Sometimes they look just doing activism from the couch.

maglavaitss 10y ago
Anything that raises a flag and makes people think and consider alternatives to FB, Google, printed money, etc, is good activism. Whether it's from the couch or the armchair, is irrelevant.
- pjc50 10y ago
  FB, Google, printed money One of these things is not like the others.
  - iamdave 10y ago
    I don't think their point was to make precise and completely congruent analogues of these three topics.
    - pjc50 10y ago
      It's more that I don't want sensible concerns about privacy in online services diluted by monetary theory that's at best "fringe".
      - deleted 10y ago
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      - Hondor 10y ago
        The article identifies the risk that printed money will disappear, replaced with a few large credit card companies and banks so the government can monitor everyone's use of money. Since we're clearly already heading in that direction bit by bit, I wouldn't call it a fringe theory.
        zanny 10y ago
        It is only fringe / extremist / conspiracy theorist when its a problem I don't personally have (or have not exerted the mental energy to fully understand). If it is affecting my life, it is serious mainstream business we need to take seriously. That is a fundamental problem with online discourse. People put on blinders on singular crusades when reality is the combined effects of many, many forces influencing one another. Topically, the anti-encryption movement by governments is tied to broader totalitarian leanings by many traditionally republican states in the west, which has hundreds of influential aspects in all kinds of fields of business and society. And those leanings have correlations in everything from fearmongering to economic uncertainty to long running campaigns by certain interests that have lasted decades. And then we get trapped in this rat hole of arguing over what is "serious" or meaningful, when in hindsight we can historically recognize almost all of history is the combined effect of many influencing factors not apparent at that moment in the past.
  - patrickaljord 10y ago
    Yeah, one of these are being forced upon us by guns.
- GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
  Printed money as opposed to what? Printed money is far better from a privacy standpoint than electronic money. And no, bitcoin or similar is not going to be a realistic replacement. Neither is money backed by gold or the element or compound of your choice.
bogomipz 10y ago
What do you not find serious about it?. The author is sighting actual examples of behavior that they find concerning. Do you doubt the veracity of these examples? Also Why does it matter where activism is conducted from?

natch 10y ago

Maybe they're not yet perfect, but kudos to them for at least decoupling services so they keep more flexibility to move anywhere.

mSparks 10y ago

Its not even a real article. Just some mindless repetition of some braindead cia propoganda against foreign governments being used to promote a new crypto currency called shadowcash. Yawn.

mastazi 10y ago

Maybe the author should give a look at https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ - there are a lot of decentralised blog engines around.

nebulon 10y ago
You could also checkout https://cloudron.io https://cloudron.io we do try to make it a lot more user friendly and approachable to self-host your blog and lots of other app categories. I think once self-hosting such apps doesn't require much technical knowledge anymore, it removes a lot of friction for users.
- mastazi 10y ago
  Yes I really like Cloudron, it's one of the best possible solutions to introduce less technical people to self hosting