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A benevolent dictatorship would always be more effective than a democracy, but what happens once it stops being benevolent? Same here. A centralized app (like
by neiman 6y ago
A benevolent dictatorship would always be more effective than a democracy, but what happens once it stops being benevolent?
Same here. A centralized app (like Signal) is more effective than distributed/decentralized approach. But what would happen if Signal would ever stop being benevolent?
Remember the days Google were "do no evil"?
- oblio 6y agoIsn't Signal a non profit? Much different incentives.
- neiman 6y agoAre all non-profit organizations good? What stops Signal from becoming for-profit in the future?
- awestroke 6y ago> "[...] we've structured the project as a non-profit entity, so it can never be bought, has no investors, and isn't "owned" by anyone. We did this because we wanted to be "for" something other than profit, and we wanted to make sure the organization was only incentivized to create something that is in the best interest of the people who depend on it." https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/comment/gikrk2p https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/comment/...
- neiman 6y agoYes, but I have structured my message so it can never be criticized :-) Their intention is good, but I fail to see how it ensures that Signal, the project or the management of the app, would never fall into bad hands. Promising such a thing is somewhere between naive and misleading.
- thekyle 6y agoGood point. OpenAI was a non-profit, but then they changed to be for-profit and were acquired by Microsoft. Same could happen to Signal.
- growse 6y ago> But what would happen if Signal would ever stop being benevolent? You fork it.
- erhaxf 6y agoDo you mean more effective for encrypted protocols? Because for unencrypted messages NNTP is very effective. Google killed it with groups 2.0 (1.0 was quite well done).
- neiman 6y agoI meant apps, not protocols, but thanks for the tip. I never looked into the details of NNTP.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoThen you switch. Same, what happens when your Matrix instance stops being benevolent? You switch.