>> the system has to be rearchitected to solve > If it was obvious how to, we'd be talking about that, but it's not even obvious how to We're in agreement, bo

>> the system has to be rearchitected to solve > If it was obvious how to, we'd be talking about that, but it's not even obvious how to We're in agreement, both on that and on your points on how innovation does happen. Basically all of the decentralization projects in the past ten years, from federation to p2p to blockchains, have been taking a stab at the greenfield approach. None of them have worked in the sense that they displace existing approaches, but I remain hopeful that something useful can come out of it all. As a fun aside, one of the more interesting semi-adversarial approaches I've seen was Delta Chat [1] which basically put a chat interface on top of email. 1. https://delta.chat/en/ https://delta.chat/en/