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A key quote from the article: > Adoption of a decentralized web cannot play by the old rules. New experiences and interactions that are outside of current norm
by marknadal 8y ago
A key quote from the article:
> Adoption of a decentralized web cannot play by the old rules. New experiences and interactions that are outside of current norms needs to appeal to individual values, that enable trust and ease of adoption. Pulling users away from convention is not an easy task.
They seem to suggest Decentralization is at odds with "conventional" consumer experiences.
It doesn't have to be that way.
For instance:
- D.Tube (decentralized YouTube)
- notabug.io (P2P Reddit)
Both look, feel, and act very much like their "conventional" versions. Yet both of these are fully decentralized using GUN (my project: https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun ). Most users would not even know there is a difference.
So it is certainly possible to both appeal to the masses/convention, while being private/secure and free/open-source and decentralized.
Although I do think we do need NEW and DIFFERENT experiences, things that are "fresh" and fun. Facebook basically looks corporate now. We need to build new UI/UX experiences that define a new "era" of the web, in the same way people look back and remember the 80s or 90s. This doesn't have to be something we look back to, it is something we can engineer from the start. :)
- wilsonrocks 8y ago> Most users would not even know there is a difference. I fear that the difference they would see is that other people aren't using it and they would go back to where their friends are:(
- gitgud 8y agoI wouldn't really say fully decentralised they require DNS and a webserver to point to for the website. Although the content may be decentralised, is inaccurate to claim its fully decentralised. Decentralising domain names is not an easy task, as IPFS is discovering...
- marknadal 8y agoWe've successfully done local multicast, Bluetooth, discovery. DNS is not necessary, IPv4 works, and with IPv6 there are even people hosting P2P reddit from their desktop - so no, servers not needed either. And we have Identifi/Iris for naming, by Satoshi's 1st contributor to Bitcoin. The future is here, yesterday!
- thosakwe 8y agoThe Fediverse needs a killer app that’s not just a clone of a centralized service. Without that, I imagine adoption will forever be low, because of network effects.
- rchaud 8y agoAirbnb's "Growth hacking" case study comes to mind. Their original web app allowed people to cross-post their listings to Craigslist so they didn't have to do it twice. It's possible the same principle would work here. Post to [fediverse-friendly app] and it cross-posts to Youtube/medium/Twitter. Very likely that APIs would be locked down to prevent this though.