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I mean public in so far as it just happens without you thinking about it, that could be commercial too, its just more pervasive as public. When such infrastruct
by Quarrelsome 6y ago
I mean public in so far as it just happens without you thinking about it, that could be commercial too, its just more pervasive as public. When such infrastructure becomes a _guaranteed_ aspect of a given operating system. But until then people implicitly _want_ centralised.
- josephg 6y agoOne healthy middle ground here is the situation with git. Git is fundamentally decentralized, but I can use it in a centralised way if I want to via services like github, gitlab, bitbucket, etc. Those services allow me to collaborate with other users and back up my projects. And because it’s decentralised, I can trivially move / clone my repository to other providers (or to my own servers) without losing any data. (... Well, except for github issues; which arguably should be stored in repository itself.) I can imagine a similar situation for a small database too. Live clone to Dropbox or something similar. The user gets all the benefits of a centralised system but stays in control, and they can switch providers whenever they want.
- Quarrelsome 6y agoye but you know in practice that means at least 95% of users are on the centralised version. We continue to build up this 5% of technocracy that have different rules applied to them because they know enough to care.