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Getting to a high level of traction while requiring people to download a client is incredibly difficult. I can't see it happening.

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• bgilroy26 11y ago
  Based on the aether's name and your comment, I thought this discussion was about Ethereum. An app built on Ethereum would also check off the 'decentralized' box for people who are angry at Ellen Pao. https://www.ethereum.org/ https://www.ethereum.org/
  • natrius 11y ago
    To me, decentralization isn't just about avoiding control. I think that the network effects that decentralization yields are the only way to compete with an established network. It's hard to get people to agree on which centralized alternative to use, but if structured correctly, there can be just one decentralized alternative with several benevolent forks with different features, but a shared data store. No one's in control, and everybody wins.
  • ultimape 11y ago
    And it is more than possible! Eris Industries inception project was effectively a reddit clone running on etherium.
• userbinator 11y ago
  That wasn't a problem with Napster, Limewire, BitTorret, and all the other P2P apps that existed before... people will download and run things if they believe in the value of doing so.
  • inoop 11y ago
    This isn't the 90's. Downloading and installing software really isn't a thing anymore for a lot of people.
    • tommorris 11y ago
      Really? App Stores seem pretty popular.