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Decentralized projects never seem to gain steam until mainstream users are forced away from centralized services. Take a look at this recent article looking at
by goatsi 9y ago
Decentralized projects never seem to gain steam until mainstream users are forced away from centralized services. Take a look at this recent article looking at why the majority of mastodon users are from Japan: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable/ http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-bi...
- criddell 9y agoWhat are some examples of decentralized projects that won over centralized services?
- xena 9y agoemail
- zokier 9y agoOkay, and anything from the umm.. past 20 years or so?
- bitcuration 9y agoNot exactly. Gamil, Hotmail etc. are some successes that had clearly centralized email despite remained on the same protocols.
- criddell 9y agoGmail and Hotmail are still part of a federated email system. Email won over messaging on centralized services like Compuserve and Prodigy.
- bigphishy 9y agoGNU+Linux
- yborg 9y ago> Federated distributed servers > Refuse to federate with certain servers because of content > Somehow different from the status quo So we end up with a balkanized sea of Mastodon servers with arbitrary interconnection. How this becomes a compelling Facebook competitor to all but a tiny minority is not obvious to me. Groups may as well set up their own bulletin board sites each with their own vision of allowed content. I.e. what we have now.