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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    John Backus‏ @backus Jul 27

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    Expected more pushback on this by now since I'm saying ~90% of decentralization today may be unnecessary overkill Might do a followup post where I exclusively argue controversial things like "everyone should use @infura_io", "dApps behind DNS are ok", "@metamask_io is good", etchttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1022187372686008321 …

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    John Backus @backus
    Lessons on decentralization from file sharing history: ⚖️ Decentralization shadows the law 🎯 Targeted decentralization goes a long way ☁️ How to spot foreshadowing of decentralization ✊ Dependence on activism 📚 A larger playbook of legal tactics https://medium.com/@jbackus/resistant-protocols-how-decentralization-evolves-2f9538832ada …
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      1. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 27

        Title for this post: "Don't @ me"

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      2. Bedeho‏ @bedehomender Jul 27
        Replying to @backus @infura_io @metamask_io

        Do you have a thesis on what the actual 10% may be? hopefully it includes _something_ from this new p2p wave?

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 27
        Replying to @bedehomender @infura_io @metamask_io

        Yeah. It includes parts of Augur, for example. I don't know enough about their tech stack to have an opinion on what is overly decentralized, but after playing with it a bit I'd probably start by saying I'd nix syncing the chain locally.

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      4. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 27
        Replying to @backus @bedehomender and

        Totally separate from security or whatever guarantees they are optimizing for, I bet if someone took the Augur UI, made it depend only on Infura without any local sync, and put it up at a domain like http://augur.now , they'd capture >50% of users I bet

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      2. Jonathan Sterling‏ @JSterling8 Jul 27
        Replying to @backus @infura_io @metamask_io

        @derose: a leader appears

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      3. Chris DeRose‏ @derose Jul 27
        Replying to @JSterling8 @backus and

        He sure does. @backus - we can maybe do a show at some point. The schedule is packed for a bit, but ping me if you're interested :)

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      4. Bedeho‏ @bedehomender Jul 27
        Replying to @derose @JSterling8 and

        Would love to see this one, just make sure to find points of disagreement, otherwise it will be a snoozer. Haven't seen @backus write much on governance, that may be a fruitful path of inquiry.

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