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> This is centralized thinking. In a decentralized open protocol system, everyone pays for their own way, but it's very cheap at an individual level. There's no
by ilyt 3y ago
> This is centralized thinking. In a decentralized open protocol system, everyone pays for their own way, but it's very cheap at an individual level. There's no central "it"
It is if you want to have central page for people to visit. Someone needs to pay for hosting that else you will have no users if everyone needs to host their bit
> I'm on several email groups where I've been a participant since the very early 90s. Every so often there's the "oh have you seen this new shiny thing, let's move to that!"
...do you know how mailing lists work ? It's a central server that distributes it to the members. Pretty light one, sure, but it is still something someone have to host and manage. There is no "distributed mailing list"
> Also, I still read Usenet on most days, just like I've been doing since the late 80s. It's alive (if not very active) because nobody owns it.
Central servers managed by people again. Yeah they are federated but still rely on a bunch of institutions to throw some servers at it.
- jjav 3y ago> It is if you want to have central page for people to visit. There is no "central page" for Usenet. > ...do you know how mailing lists work ? HN isn't the place for this kind of discussion style. If you insist on asking, I have been running email servers personally and professionally for 33 years now and have worked in enterprise tech companies specializing in email. I have a resonably good idea of how email works. > > Usenet > Central servers managed by people again. No. You can run your own Usenet node just as you can be your own email server. That's why these protocols are fully decentralized. You also can rely on someone else's Usenet server or email server, but that's your choice to make if you wish. You don't have to do that to participate in the ecosystem. That's the strength of decentralization.
- ilyt 3y ago>> ...do you know how mailing lists work ? >HN isn't the place for this kind of discussion style. If you insist on asking, I have been running email servers personally and professionally for 33 years now and have worked in enterprise tech companies specializing in email. I have a resonably good idea of how email works. I asked how you think MAILING LISTS work, not how email works. And you obviously have no idea how MAILING LISTS work