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Tribler founder here, great to see people still care about cute old P2P file sharing. My lab has been trying to get sharing, searching, and crowdsourcing to sc

Tribler founder here, great to see people still care about cute old P2P file sharing. My lab has been trying to get sharing, searching, and crowdsourcing to scale towards millions for 16 years now. The fundamental science is making progress to re-decentralise The Internet. Decades of work left obviously. Lots of progress on creating non-profit versions of all of Big Tech services (well in principle that is). Even Amazon can be decentralised, see a recent phd thesis from the lab, https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Aa4f750b6-5ac5-4709-80c5-71eb71ac7b35 https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Aa4f750... European Commission might come in and allow open source clients of Facebook, instagram, Twitter, Amazon, etc. Our trustchain technology is specifically designed to be the superstructure for this. So EU might break down the defensive moats around 10 T$ of market cap. The legal foundation is already there, the new eIDAS Regulation is designed to _enforce_ login using the upcoming EU digital passport for all of Big Tech. So Open Source EU Metaverse, connecting all Big Tech protocols into a single repo and identity management solution with true privacy protection..

rektide 5y ago
> The legal foundation is already there, the new eIDAS Regulation is designed to _enforce_ login using the upcoming EU digital passport for all of Big Tech. So Open Source EU Metaverse, connecting all Big Tech protocols into a single repo and identity management solution with true privacy protection.. Legally mandating a single user-identity system seems like the worst possible scenario I ever could have imagined for cyberspace. Imagining trusting such a system is enormously difficult. But more so, to let the mold set on cyerspace, to create a single way the internet has to work, & deny new frontiers, new possibilities, new creativities... that seems monstrous. Beyond imagining. I do like the idea of the possibility of interop.
- tribler 5y ago
  apologies for the poor formulation. Another login system you are required to support. People can create personas and if you try to de-anonymize them across service you're in gross violation of EU law. So more like privacy friendly must-have, right?

rektide 5y ago

> The legal foundation is already there, the new eIDAS Regulation is designed to _enforce_ login using the upcoming EU digital passport for all of Big Tech. So Open Source EU Metaverse, connecting all Big Tech protocols into a single repo and identity management solution with true privacy protection.. Legally mandating a single user-identity system seems like the worst possible scenario I ever could have imagined for cyberspace. Imagining trusting such a system is enormously difficult. But more so, to let the mold set on cyerspace, to create a single way the internet has to work, & deny new frontiers, new possibilities, new creativities... that seems monstrous. Beyond imagining. I do like the idea of the possibility of interop.

tribler 5y ago
apologies for the poor formulation. Another login system you are required to support. People can create personas and if you try to de-anonymize them across service you're in gross violation of EU law. So more like privacy friendly must-have, right?