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I never said anything about crypto so I don't feel qualified to answer your questions. I'm talking about decentralization in general and what I want to see. Blo

• shagie 5y ago
  What is lacking in the current decentralized technologies? Mastodon has been around for half a decade, is actively supported, and is part of the Fediverse. One of the difficulties that I have is that the decentralization proposals don't seem to offer anything over the existing solutions out there aside from the "I want to build it again." Don't get me wrong - building it again is a legitimate reason. There are several services out there that I'd like to build again... though I also want to do it because I feel that there's a problem that the existing solution doesn't properly solve or has a less than optimal underlying model for my use case. So, I return to the question of "what is this going to do better?" This can help lead to feature discovery of existing platforms (the "wait, it does that too?"), the addition of missing requirements to those existing platforms, or the beginnings of a paradigm shift for how one works with such services. I want to know what's missing so that I can work on the making it better. I don't see what is currently missing in the current (distributed) solutions.