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Isn’t the issue with these that ultimately it relies on someone to make good tools around, and whoever ends up owning those tools ends up owning and re-centrali
by anomaloustho 4y ago
Isn’t the issue with these that ultimately it relies on someone to make good tools around, and whoever ends up owning those tools ends up owning and re-centralizing all of these decentralized entities? (e.g. Coinbase owning everyone’s wallets)
One example they posted was that Bob is a music lover. So he keeps his music on his web node. I don’t know how Bob is going to do that if it’s not painlessly easy. And it needs to be in some sort of schema-defined format, and to be honored by all decentralized apps. So Bob is going to put it in something called “MusicBase”, which now centralizes and owns all of the data + controls the schema.
A second aspect is that nothing seems to really stop the web from being decentralized. e.g. Scraping, APIs, and integrations. It’s just that orgs have learned that lock-in is advantageous and therefore found their way down that path.
Am I wrong about this?
- woojoo666 4y agoI think there's a bit of a leap from "Bob wants to use music in any media player" to "Bob controls the schema". Decentralized governance exists (via DAOs)