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You're right - it's going to bounce back. But don't hold on to those shares for too long. The mesh/decentralized/p2p networking movement is really interesting

by kromem 9y ago

You're right - it's going to bounce back. But don't hold on to those shares for too long. The mesh/decentralized/p2p networking movement is really interesting, and given the ever increasing power of user devices, the balance for a shift to those models is compelling. There are huge existing challenges, but I'm seeing really smart ideas in the space, and I think it's only a matter of years before we start to see mainstream p2p networks (still over the Internet) replacing a server model for some successful widespread apps or services. Facebook style social networking is the PERFECT use case for such a topology. Facebook's time is coming to an end. Not now (like some are reacting), and not in the next year or so, but soon enough. Their paradigm isn't as good as the alternative. The alternative simply has implementation issues that need to be worked out, but they aren't insurmountable, and different groups of people are solving them in novel ways constantly.

adventured 9y ago
> The mesh/decentralized/p2p networking movement is really interesting There isn't a single lasting mass consumer adoption example of decentralized anything in the modern history of technology (eg post WW2). That's due to a rigid reason: human nature. It's not going to change. The only thing that will change here, is privacy laws will force behavior changes on centralized platforms. I can name dozens of massive technology & platform adoptions by consumers, every single one of them is centralized. Now, name the dozens of vast decentralized examples... crickets. Decentralized as a mass consumer adoption thing will perpetually be fantasy. Only (some) tech people want it.
- odorousrex 9y ago
  E-mail has been going pretty strong for 20+ years now and it is still very decentralized (Even with big players like Gmail in the game).
  - posterboy 9y ago
    There are two or three hubs between Europe and America, terminating the big under sea cables and a few internet backbones. It's not as if you had point connections to every IP. Rather, you go through one single IP to your provider in the general case. Somehow "decentral" lacks a proper graph theoretic definition. By the way, the sun is decentralized, its center of gravity does not coincide with the galaxy's center of gravity! Good comment anyway. I didn't even think of e-mail.

by kromem 9y ago

adventured 9y ago

> The mesh/decentralized/p2p networking movement is really interesting There isn't a single lasting mass consumer adoption example of decentralized anything in the modern history of technology (eg post WW2). That's due to a rigid reason: human nature. It's not going to change. The only thing that will change here, is privacy laws will force behavior changes on centralized platforms. I can name dozens of massive technology & platform adoptions by consumers, every single one of them is centralized. Now, name the dozens of vast decentralized examples... crickets. Decentralized as a mass consumer adoption thing will perpetually be fantasy. Only (some) tech people want it.

odorousrex 9y ago
E-mail has been going pretty strong for 20+ years now and it is still very decentralized (Even with big players like Gmail in the game).
- posterboy 9y ago
  There are two or three hubs between Europe and America, terminating the big under sea cables and a few internet backbones. It's not as if you had point connections to every IP. Rather, you go through one single IP to your provider in the general case. Somehow "decentral" lacks a proper graph theoretic definition. By the way, the sun is decentralized, its center of gravity does not coincide with the galaxy's center of gravity! Good comment anyway. I didn't even think of e-mail.