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It's not decentralized in the modern sense, and doesn't offer the functionality I would want from a modern decentralized solution.
by PrimeMcFly 3y ago
It's not decentralized in the modern sense, and doesn't offer the functionality I would want from a modern decentralized solution.
- jjav 3y agoWhat are those "modern" characteristics you seek? I'll note that everyone who has claimed to build a better email or better Usenet for the last 4 decades has invariably failed. So there's that. In the short term, it's very easy to build a more sleek and fancy communications platforms. Hundreds have been built and they can be nice for a while. All of them eventually fail due to the inherent limitation of proprietary profit-seeking closed systems. Of course I'm not claiming NNTP and Usenet are perfect. Sure we could tweak them for this and that improvements. But the fundamental principle of decentralized peer to peer distribution is the core strength. Without that, any solution will ultimately fail in the long run.