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Block chain, bit torrent, freenet. There are plenty of alternatives that don't require centralization, they are just unpolished because there is no money in th
by konjin 6y ago
Block chain, bit torrent, freenet.
There are plenty of alternatives that don't require centralization, they are just unpolished because there is no money in them.
Again, github only exists because for some reason my generation of developers has decided that js is the only way to use the internet and a pretty interface makes up for not knowing the tools you are using.
- notriddle 6y agoBlock chain is the only one in your list that is actually decentralized, and it winds up de-facto centralized anyway because it's too slow. BitTorrent is centralized around the search engines, because a content-addressable storage system can't help with content discovery. You need someone to delete torrents that claim to be video games but are actually ransomeware. FreeNet is the same as BitTorrent, except that it has built-in support for updatable "freepsites," so the content directories are built into the protocol instead of being run as regular websites. Also, it's anonymous, and kinda slow. It's actually really cool, and horribly underrated, but it doesn't actually solve the schelling point problem. Which freepsite do you trust to have factually correct information?
- konjin 6y agoWhich is why you don't use js. Freenet is more than enough to distribute source code with a mailing list and signed files using plain text.