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Hey, author here. I hope it does age poorly. I tried to make it clear that I’m a prolific user of decentralised applications, and that I really want them to su

Hey, author here. I hope it does age poorly. I tried to make it clear that I’m a prolific user of decentralised applications, and that I really want them to succeed. I just pointed out my feelings on why they usually don’t, in the hope we can do something about it.

pdonis 5y ago
> I just pointed out my feelings on why they usually don’t I think this part of the article, instead of just being the last four paragraphs, should have been almost all of it. As it is, you make some very strong claims with no supporting argument whatsoever: "the solution has to be political" "The current system of profit motives, one might call it a market, was designed to optimise the process of extracting, refining, and transforming physical resources." "some like to idealise the aforementioned market as a free and unregulated system, the truth is that it optimises rather poorly under those circumstances, and needs heavy regulation to align profit motives in the direction of efficient processing and distribution of resources." And this in a footnote: "I’m not convinced we should [keep these profit motives at all]" All of this needs a lot of justification.
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- miguelmurca 5y ago
  ... Does it? The author made it pretty clear throughout the article that (in their opinion; see the "Blockchain" section) the walled-gardening comes from having to trap in your users in order to make some money from your service. The conclusion that you need to change the (larger picture) motivations for the existence of these services in order not to fall into this behaviour seems logical to me. (And, of course, if you want to change social organisation/motivation, the solution has to be political.)
  - pdonis 5y ago
    > Does it? Yes, because... > in their opinion
    - miguelmurca 5y ago
      > see the Blockchain section They expand on why that is their opinion just fine.
      - pdonis 5y ago
        Evidently you and I have very different standards for what counts as an explanation.
savingisbadnow 5y ago
Got to love the people that think they understand Bitcoin when their arguments and reasoning show exactly the opposite. I suggest you get of your high horse and actually do some research. You just come across as the typical entitled westerner

pdonis 5y ago

> I just pointed out my feelings on why they usually don’t I think this part of the article, instead of just being the last four paragraphs, should have been almost all of it. As it is, you make some very strong claims with no supporting argument whatsoever: "the solution has to be political" "The current system of profit motives, one might call it a market, was designed to optimise the process of extracting, refining, and transforming physical resources." "some like to idealise the aforementioned market as a free and unregulated system, the truth is that it optimises rather poorly under those circumstances, and needs heavy regulation to align profit motives in the direction of efficient processing and distribution of resources." And this in a footnote: "I’m not convinced we should [keep these profit motives at all]" All of this needs a lot of justification.

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miguelmurca 5y ago
... Does it? The author made it pretty clear throughout the article that (in their opinion; see the "Blockchain" section) the walled-gardening comes from having to trap in your users in order to make some money from your service. The conclusion that you need to change the (larger picture) motivations for the existence of these services in order not to fall into this behaviour seems logical to me. (And, of course, if you want to change social organisation/motivation, the solution has to be political.)
- pdonis 5y ago
  > Does it? Yes, because... > in their opinion
  - miguelmurca 5y ago
    > see the Blockchain section They expand on why that is their opinion just fine.
    - pdonis 5y ago
      Evidently you and I have very different standards for what counts as an explanation.

savingisbadnow 5y ago

Got to love the people that think they understand Bitcoin when their arguments and reasoning show exactly the opposite. I suggest you get of your high horse and actually do some research. You just come across as the typical entitled westerner