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> The sad reality of modern "decentralized" software is that organizations, people behind it don't even have any intentions to make it decentralized, to give up
by Confiks 8y ago
> The sad reality of modern "decentralized" software is that organizations, people behind it don't even have any intentions to make it decentralized, to give up control
All the examples of decentralized software mentioned in the article are fully open source. They don't need to "give up control", because they are not necessarily in control.
It is of course true that they run the most used implementation of the software, and that the project is centralized around that. That's mostly a result of these projects being run as meritocracies; any person or group who wishes could aid in removing that initial organizational centralization. The original authors also simply know the most about running their own software in production.
- zzzcpan 8y agoThose people have to put a lot of work to make sure decentralization actually happens, to incentivize others to make and promote other implementations, etc. But they don't even want to talk about it. They want everyone to use the thing they control. There is no decentralization here at all.
- Confiks 8y ago> But they don't even want to talk about it. I think that's a broad generalization, perhaps of your own experiences. There are enough people on the cutting edge that you can constructively talk with. But remember it's still a meritocracy: 'they' might listen to you, but will only take you seriously if you present your own work to them.