Activism is critical glue for decentralized technologies, but reason isn’t obvious: tech decentralizes until the risk is tolerable for the activists. After that, paying UX penalties isn’t worth it.https://twitter.com/backus/status/1015094493836554240 …
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Decentralization always costs something. You can make it as seamless as centralized systems, but you still pay in time to build. Activists hold decentralized systems together by taking on risk so that the tech doesn’t pay further usability costs.
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Imagine BitTorrent without The Pirate Bay doing everything it can to stick around
Tor exit node operators took on real risk in the early days especially