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"Every single company holding your data in a central place is mining it today and selling the information to advertisers." That doesn't mean it has to be that
by ElijahLynn 9y ago
"Every single company holding your data in a central place is mining it today and selling the information to advertisers."
That doesn't mean it has to be that way in the future though. There are centralized social networks that are charging money for their use, and they are not selling to advertisers nor are there any.
- allannienhuis 9y agobut how is that guaranteed? If there's a single source of data, its a bigger target for bad actors, and a single source still needs an owner of some sort that you have to trust isn't going to cheat or change the rules in the future. With decentralized, you still have the same issues (I don't really know how you solve those unless data transfer is truly peer-to-peer which I think causes discoverability and similar issues to usability), but at least the scope of them is inherently limited and you can opt in/out of the source based on your trust of it.
- DeRock 9y agoReplace advertisers with governments, and your centralized store has now been breached. See Lavabit.