We’re still in the DYI “CP/M days” of efforts to decentralize the web. We need “Macintosh” level solutions to get broad adoption.
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Replying to @wycats
CP/M the command line O/S widely used for tech & business personal computer 1977-1981 (MS-DOS was aCP/M clone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
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Replying to @awbjs
What's the centralization and decentralization in that analogy?
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Also what do you define as "decentralized web"
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Replying to @wycats
Non-Siloed. Control at the edges. User sovereignty. Minimize central points of control
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Replying to @awbjs
Is the web considered centralized because a lot of people use Google? Does Ghost Pro count as centralized?
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My real question is what is it about the web as infrastructure that causes this ostensible centralization
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Replying to @wycats
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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