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The only thing using a centralized service buys you is a single point of failure. (FTR, this is hyperbole, but not by much.)
by rosser 14y ago
The only thing using a centralized service buys you is a single point of failure.
(FTR, this is hyperbole, but not by much.)
- volaski 14y agoThat's exactly my point. Single point of failure means single point of responsibility, which means that single point of failure must do a damn good job maintaining it. That's why a "non-profit" approach will never work.
- smlacy 14y agoSo, by that measure, "The Web" as a nonprofit (w3c.org?) will never work and should be a huge failure, right?
- volaski 14y agoDid you get to read my post by any chance? That's not what I talk about in the post. My point was, sites like Wikipedia are successful as non-profit, but the type of value Twitter provides is very different from the value w3c or wikimedia provides and should be considered with a different frame.
- smlacy 14y agoThe only value twitter provides is in the value of it's users. There's virtually no value in the platform itself.