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If a protocol can be broken in such shallow ways as starving out the network, it's badly designed. If users refuse to leave after a company switches protocols
by gochi 3y ago
If a protocol can be broken in such shallow ways as starving out the network, it's badly designed.
If users refuse to leave after a company switches protocols so manipulatively, it's because they don't care about the protocol used.
- munk-a 3y agoUsers don't care about the protocol used. Well, the majority at least - your average user is not well represented by the HN userbase, we're all power users of some kind or another.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoAin’t that the truth. I’ve had to convince friends to move off of propriety, anti-privacy insecure chat clients, and it’s a struggle. People fear change, even with promises as clear (to me) as better privacy and security. To the average joe, who pays no mind to the man behind the curtain, getting them to understand and act on things as basic as the human right to privacy is a struggle.
- ajdude 3y agoThis seems to be exactly what Google has done with chrome and it's working very well for them.
- sledgehammers 3y agoHow would you design a protocol immune from all the politics? Whatever the implementation, it's just a part of a larger complex system. This is a very hard issue, and trusting Meta or the likes is naive and dangerous with destructive consequences. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...