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Build distributed systems that can't be taken down. Social media could be built on IPFS and file coin and lib P2P. Protocols that have no ownership or entity t
by gnarbarian 6y ago
Build distributed systems that can't be taken down. Social media could be built on IPFS and file coin and lib P2P. Protocols that have no ownership or entity to attack via political means. Email already works this way in a sense.
- viklove 6y ago"So how do we do it?" "Just do it." It's easy to say that, but it's obviously not working in the real world. You have to create incentive structures that reward the desired behavior.
- 908B64B197 6y agoNot only that but such a network would be pretty hard to moderate. And by moderate I'm not even talking about the content. I mean completely abused by folks who will turn it into a spam/hosting operation.
- aabbcc1241 6y agoWhat about shareable and forkable blacklist and whitelist for each user to explicitly opt-in?
- gnarbarian 6y agoThat's how I see it. moderation should be a service on top of the protocol that users can choose themselves. Perhaps even unique for each person built out by input from the user.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThat's simply not profitable. We're a society driven by the profit motive. There is a vanishingly small amount of profit to be made there.
- gnarbarian 6y agoEmail itself isn't profitable either, but we pay for things that help us with it like spam blocking and outlook
- sudosysgen 6y agoSure, but email didn't have to compete with anything before it. And even then today email has turned into a surveillance nightmare, not the ideal of the comment above.
- cwkoss 6y agoEmail competed with mail and fax and effectively won.
- pharmakom 6y agoI'm not sure it can, given how many failed attempts there have been. I would like to try such a service though. Email is not a good example because it is controlled by a handful of providers.