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> Decentralizing the web through new technologies like blockchain and decentralized protocols can ensure that the web remains community-focused and user-oriente

> Decentralizing the web through new technologies like blockchain and decentralized protocols can ensure that the web remains community-focused and user-oriented, Let's be realistic. A safe-place for anonymous money transactions is never ever going to be community-focused. It may start out community-focused but we all know it is going to end up like 4chan.

panosfilianos 6y ago
I think you should elaborate more on that, because your argument is really suffering currently.
adnzzzzZ 6y ago
4chan is a community oriented place on the Internet just like any other. Just because it doesn't cater to your tastes specifically it doesn't mean it's a negative example of a community.
- chii 6y ago
  When people mention "community-focused", they often omit that the community refers to their own community.
konjin 6y ago
4chan is better for your mental health than facebook, twitter or istagam.
- bilbo0s 6y ago
  How would any of the centralized cesspools be any better than any of the other centralized cesspools? In the end, aren't you still in a cesspool? You're saying 4chan is healthy, perhaps because you have an affinity for it? My daughter and her friends believe tiktok is healthy, again, because they have an affinity for it. I understand that people find their communities in these centralized places. That said, having an affinity for one centralized website or another doesn't make that centralized website necessarily "healthy". You may argue, "But Ah Haaa Bilbo0s!!! Decentralizing these sites won't make the decentralized places any less cesspool-like than the centralized versions." Perhaps not, but health and clean content are not really the point of decentralization, distributed control is the point. We shouldn't confuse our own tribe's centralized system as the ideal of "healthy". Someone downthread here put it best: When people mention "community-focused", they often omit that the community refers to their own community
throwaway33339 6y ago
I find it very amusing to see miffed people crawling out of the woodwork to reply to your jest about 4chan because it's a constant reminder that a huge chunk of HN is being very civil and charitable on one tab and reading a bunch of racial and homophobic slurs without batting an eye on the tab next to it. Gives a whole new meaning to civility and charitability, and indicates pretty well to whom it is directed.

panosfilianos 6y ago

I think you should elaborate more on that, because your argument is really suffering currently.

adnzzzzZ 6y ago

4chan is a community oriented place on the Internet just like any other. Just because it doesn't cater to your tastes specifically it doesn't mean it's a negative example of a community.

chii 6y ago
When people mention "community-focused", they often omit that the community refers to their own community.

konjin 6y ago

4chan is better for your mental health than facebook, twitter or istagam.

bilbo0s 6y ago
How would any of the centralized cesspools be any better than any of the other centralized cesspools? In the end, aren't you still in a cesspool? You're saying 4chan is healthy, perhaps because you have an affinity for it? My daughter and her friends believe tiktok is healthy, again, because they have an affinity for it. I understand that people find their communities in these centralized places. That said, having an affinity for one centralized website or another doesn't make that centralized website necessarily "healthy". You may argue, "But Ah Haaa Bilbo0s!!! Decentralizing these sites won't make the decentralized places any less cesspool-like than the centralized versions." Perhaps not, but health and clean content are not really the point of decentralization, distributed control is the point. We shouldn't confuse our own tribe's centralized system as the ideal of "healthy". Someone downthread here put it best: When people mention "community-focused", they often omit that the community refers to their own community

throwaway33339 6y ago

I find it very amusing to see miffed people crawling out of the woodwork to reply to your jest about 4chan because it's a constant reminder that a huge chunk of HN is being very civil and charitable on one tab and reading a bunch of racial and homophobic slurs without batting an eye on the tab next to it. Gives a whole new meaning to civility and charitability, and indicates pretty well to whom it is directed.