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That is definitely a thing hindering adoption, but if there was really a big demand for decentralization, they would have been gone already. There are many more
by WJW 8y ago
That is definitely a thing hindering adoption, but if there was really a big demand for decentralization, they would have been gone already. There are many more things holding back decentralized networks like the difficulty in filtering spam without easy coordinated effort, fixing network wide search and efficient monetization of content for creators.
- ReverseCold 8y agoYes, there definitely are other problems. For spam, you can have centralized blocklists that people can subscribe to. The iOS version of whatever would need it anyway to follow the App Store guidelines. If you feel you're being censored, unsubscribe from the list. Alternatively (or in addition to that), have everyone publicly publish who they blocked, and then trust what your friends or friend of friends blocked. Network wide search is a problem, yes, but for chat (which I really want to be decentralized :( ) it doesn't matter too much. Monetization for content creators also doesn't matter for chat. So maybe I should rephrase my initial comment: Lack of NAT/Firewall bypass is the largest (and maybe only) problem needed to be solved for decentralized chat.