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Accountability is not the same as decentralization of power, don't conflate them. Decentralizing power means that many people are made powerful in their own re
by tkel 1mo ago
Accountability is not the same as decentralization of power, don't conflate them.
Decentralizing power means that many people are made powerful in their own respects.
Accountability means that one person or a small group of people are made powerful, but there are checks or mechanisms on that person's power.
These have vastly different impliciations for how organizations and groups of people develop and grow and interact.
- mw888 1mo agoThe intent was to collapse this meaning. In the context of 'decentralized tech' I've come to believe literal 'decentralization' has unavoidably poor network effects, while 'accountability' gives what people envision from 'decentralization' without the tradeoffs—by being a more fundamental property (decentralization can emerge from it if required).