We’re still in the DYI “CP/M days” of efforts to decentralize the web. We need “Macintosh” level solutions to get broad adoption.
My real question is what is it about the web as infrastructure that causes this ostensible centralization
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The issue isn’t web-as-infrastructure. It is how that infrastructure has been used to create user exploitive products/services.
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but, also now clear that original web lacks some infrastructure (identify, discovery, etc.) needed for decentralization.
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people now working on those pieces. But high-gloss packaging will be needed to displaces the silos
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Can you give a vision for what it looks like for silos to be displaced?
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I probably could but not on twitter. A few years ago I wrote about something related. Have somewhat more refined ideas now.
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meant to include link http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/473
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EG, You can put together a decentralized replace for google docs but doing so is too hard to achieve mass adoption
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But not because of Google Docs network effects, but rather because of implementation quality. Easier to displace (Dropbox Paper)
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I think at the core is server side storage and SOP, which are wins in many ways but losses in portability and composition.
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Decentralized identifiers linked self-sovereign personal datastores that are edge-encrypted and don't trust their host w/ keys or integritypic.twitter.com/OMdn05uTPz
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- Economy of scale - Data is where the people are, so the people naturally regroup - Self-promotion of own niche services by global services
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