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I generally agree - without solving the underlying issues you end up back centralized on a handful of providers again (except with a shittier experience) sort o
by gonehome 4y ago
I generally agree - without solving the underlying issues you end up back centralized on a handful of providers again (except with a shittier experience) sort of like email.
I work on Urbit now[0], but I also think it (or something a lot like it) is the only way out of this that I've seen with a potential path to actually working.
Mostly because it tackles the upstream reasons why federated system fail (spam, distinction between account and server, linux being too hard to administer, keeping things on the same version, etc.)[1][2]
[0] https://tlon.network/ https://tlon.network/
[1] https://zalberico.com/essay/2022/09/28/tlon-urbit-computing-freedom.html https://zalberico.com/essay/2022/09/28/tlon-urbit-computing-...
[2] http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...