> Hell, we /started/ decentralized and over email and newsgroups and personal websites and blogs and it's all Facebook Facebook Facebook now that the Eternal Se

> Hell, we /started/ decentralized and over email and newsgroups and personal websites and blogs and it's all Facebook Facebook Facebook now that the Eternal September came around. We didn't do the decentralization then because of good politics and security: look how bad the other security properties were. Rather we did it because the field was new and the actors not consolidated. Creating decentralization after in a mature, consoliditated space is a completely different enterprise. In particular, a lot more attention needs to paid to inefficiency and defense against the central hegemons. It's a hard battle, but if won, will be a much more durable victory.