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The Web and email are both decentralized. The Internet is decentralized to the extent there's no single "Internet company" which can kick you off. Various com
by msla 7y ago
The Web and email are both decentralized.
The Internet is decentralized to the extent there's no single "Internet company" which can kick you off.
Various companies try very hard to make you forget these things.
- jvagner 7y agoI wonder if the case isn’t that we don’t allow new technologies to be truly decentralized. Email and web came from a time before... our market/startup forces in play today may not yield a new, true decentralization because the urge to monetize is stronger now than before.
- oblio 7y agoAlmost no new B2C web company can work without Google.
- salawat 7y agoTechnically it can. You just have to use alternate old school advertising practices to get discovered. Radio/television spots, word-of-mouth, Billboard, etc... The very fact you think it is impossible to reach end users without using Google should highlight just how much they have cornered the market. Remember, internet search was not always a given, and the worked just fine.
- lugg 7y agoIn lesser words, almost.
- msla 7y agoSo? That isn't what I'm talking about.
- thekyle 7y agoThat's a pretty bold claim, care to elaborate?
- superkuh 7y agoCompanies are not the web.