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I’m immensely skeptical of the ability of a decentralized or distributed web to solve any of the problems mentioned in the article. It reminds me of a checklis
by cimmanom 8y ago
I’m immensely skeptical of the ability of a decentralized or distributed web to solve any of the problems mentioned in the article.
It reminds me of a checklist that used to circulate on Slashdot in response to any suggestion to curb email spam. One of the items was: “you’re proposing a technical solution to a social problem”.
- xyzzy123 8y agoEmail is an interesting example I think, a fundamentally decentralised protocol that has become very centralised because the abuse was so hard to deal with. Other “not centralised” systems have met similar fates due to network effects, usenet springs to mind, and git to a lesser extent.
- teddyh 8y ago> It reminds me of a checklist that used to circulate on Slashdot in response to any suggestion to curb email spam. It think you mean this one, but it does not contain that phrase: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
- cimmanom 8y agoYeah, I think it was a bit shorter, so probably an earlier version of that. And maybe not the exact phrase, but the concept.