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I think many people like centralized services because they’re often just nicer to use due to the stake/incentive the organisation running it has in to make it b
by ajeet_dhaliwal 8y ago
I think many people like centralized services because they’re often just nicer to use due to the stake/incentive the organisation running it has in to make it better. Also business customers like them because they’ve got someone to talk to and blame if things go wrong. Can’t some things be decentralized where it make sense and others not be? Are you suggesting the examples of the services you listed have a decentralized version?
- thomaszander 8y agoAll very good points and my suggestion is mostly in line with those points. In most decentralized systems there are no incentives (other than wanting privacy, etc) and I agree with you that this lack of incentives has a bad effect on the quality. In many ways my suggestion is to create a base layer that is run on centralized servers (like ISPs are centralized, without lock-in) and they have an incentive to make it better because the content-creating users pay them. So the suggestion is to have a new horizontal market that enables distributed developers to create applications on top of. The examples of services (chat / reddit etc) could be written on top of this horizontal market layer where the basic data communication part is paid-for and well maintained and the developers will have much less work to make their decentralized systems ready for mass consumption.