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The key is economic. The cloud and SaaS have taken over largely because the cloud is DRM and because centralization creates opportunities for ad and ad-driven s
by api 10y ago
The key is economic. The cloud and SaaS have taken over largely because the cloud is DRM and because centralization creates opportunities for ad and ad-driven surveillance business models.
There is merit in doing the technical work to make a decentralized paradigm easier, but the lack of an economic model is the tougher of the two problems.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThere are a few other issues. One is discoverability. It's tough to find a bunch of scattered systems all over the place. That's a problem Facebook, Reddit, and HN address. Another is identity. Tracking who's doing what (and what their permissions/authorities are) over a bunch of sites is ... a pain. I'm still mulling over a comment a few days back on HN that a user had 770 different password-based identities in their accounts-management storage (personal). Search (related to the first) is a third -- spiders suck a lot of bandwidth. Unless there's some way to distribute search or allow nodes to self-report search elements (which will probably require some form of auditing). And there's administration. It's really easy create systems any idiot can use, but then, any idiot will, and DDoS Brian Krebs and Dyn. Bulletproof administration is a real pain point.