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Nobody builds a centralized app and then successfully decentralizes it. Nobody. If you want a decentralized network, you build a decentralized network - and the
by toyg 2y ago
Nobody builds a centralized app and then successfully decentralizes it. Nobody. If you want a decentralized network, you build a decentralized network - and then centralize it to the minimum degree necessary for it to actually work and scale.
The rest is PR.
- eli 2y agoNobody builds a successful decentralized app, period.
- traverseda 2y agoemail
- layer8 2y agoThe web is just that. Also Usenet (it was successful for at least a decade or two), and email as the sibling notes.
- Kye 2y agoDNS too.
- eli 2y agoWould you say activity on the web is getting more or less centralized? I wonder what the general public even perceives as “on the web” versus eg “a post on instagram” Email is distributed but either you pay Google/Microsoft to host it for you or you host it somewhere else..that carefully and proactively follows their rules.
- CuriousCosmic 2y agoThat's exactly what they've done. Bluesky is a decentralised service. It was designed to be decentralised. It's currently centralised in a limited capacity because they didn't open up federation right away. First they allowed DID federation (i.e. you can host your own DID by tying it to your domain name). Then feed curation. Then data storage. Then moderation features. And so on. There's really only a few things left and those are systems that are designed in a decentralised manner but for the sake of a smooth transition have yet to be handed over fully to the community.