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@worrydream Two big issues: (1) This isn’t Web-specific: just as true for e-mail, Usenet, Snapchat, Tinder. It’s digital info in general.
@mpt But at least email and usenet are (or were!) decentralized & locally-retained, w/ clear social protocol (email=private, usenet=public)
@worrydream been thinking about the web of alexandria: email is this way, and, despite its flaws, emails can’t disappear from underneath you
.@worrydream Digital resources have an upkeep cost. The rent made from ownership must be greater than this.
.@worrydream This is why despite replication being cheap centralisation is the norm.
@worrydream low publishing cost (anyone anywhere can publish anything) increases retention cost (someone somewhere has to retain everything)
@worrydream you've essentially explained why things don't work but didn't provide any hint to a solution. or maybe i've missed it?
.@worrydream this concept of "common record" is sort of what bitcoin does with the "blockchain" ..it's a public ledger that all have
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