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Where exactly is decentralized tech today? Nobody around me ever uses any of it. Old p2p networks (gnutella, kademlia, emule) had way larger impact on society

Where exactly is decentralized tech today? Nobody around me ever uses any of it. Old p2p networks (gnutella, kademlia, emule) had way larger impact on society 20 years ago.

pmontra 4y ago
Email and the web are more decentralized than they look. Just think that different FOSS and closed source user agents and servers interoperate without any problem, especially for email.
- feanaro 4y ago
  And in non-web space, there's Matrix (https://matrix.org https://matrix.org).
- ricardobeat 4y ago
  They were talking about crypto. Email and the web were born out of research & universities, not the “potential to attract investors”.
blamestross 4y ago
BitTorrent isn't getting any smaller. Mainline DHT is still 10x bigger than Bitcoin.