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honestly i think the main obstacle to global mesh is the lack of a good business case, which is pretty intrinsic to the format. mesh makes it possible to remove
by r14c 3y ago
honestly i think the main obstacle to global mesh is the lack of a good business case, which is pretty intrinsic to the format. mesh makes it possible to remove almost all intermediaries, so its difficult to position a company in a place where they can capture a significant portion of the generated value. even though a global self-organizing comms network can clearly be seen as a net good. which is basically an echo of the funding issues present in many critical open source components. there are some arguments to be made for cryptocurrency in this space, but for a nascent physical network the value proposition at first will be very small. a VC/startup could try to get into this space, but once the cat is out of the bag it would be very easy to bypass the artificial billing mechanism to create a rogue free mesh using a similar protocol.
of course, this doesn't include the very real technical challenges of building a scalable mesh protocol. which are nontrivial in themselves.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoAgreed on all points. > its difficult to position a company in a place where they can capture a significant portion of the generated value That's why I want to make the change. Companies tend to wane in trustworthiness over time, but maybe not if they were painfully aware that their relevance depends on explicit trust configs which could be altered by the end user at any moment and with minimal pain on the user's part. Eventually things will get bad enough that a market emerges for businesses that create handcuffs for other businesses... the spiritual successor to VPN's or somesuch. Until then, it's hobbyist stuff. That, or it'll be the big solar flare which gives first-mover-advantage to whoever can better operate in the aftermath. But until then... still hobbyist stuff.