<story><title>The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable</title><url>https://palladiummag.com/2020/10/19/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Essentially, the tradeoffs don&amp;#x27;t make it worthwhile for the average user: having to do &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; work to interoperate with &lt;i&gt;fewer&lt;/i&gt; people? &amp;quot;Sign me up,&amp;quot; says almost nobody.</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>Well, the author is talking about the &amp;quot;mainstream internet&amp;quot; that most people think of: we used to have to point out that the internet wasn&amp;#x27;t the same thing as the world wide web, now we have to point out that it isn&amp;#x27;t the same thing as facebook, twitter and amazon.  There&amp;#x27;s nothing &lt;i&gt;inevitable&lt;/i&gt; about a centralized internet technologically: packet-switched networking is by it&amp;#x27;s nature decentralized.  However, my pipe dream of someday seeing a truly decentralized mesh network that nobody can ever control or censor gets less hopeful every day - not because it&amp;#x27;s technically infeasible, but because it would require more people to get on board than I believe people have the will for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>Actually, I am working on a technology to do exactly this. With the increased trust that comes from extreme privacy, simplified permissions management, and a new security model users can comfortably do things that aren’t available on the WWW.&lt;p&gt;When you continue to think in terms of social media where a centralized service extracts user data as a blunt financial weapon from a massive user count then decentralization doesn’t make any sense. When you turn this around to solving more practical problems the applications and revenue model change.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable</title><url>https://palladiummag.com/2020/10/19/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Essentially, the tradeoffs don&amp;#x27;t make it worthwhile for the average user: having to do &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; work to interoperate with &lt;i&gt;fewer&lt;/i&gt; people? &amp;quot;Sign me up,&amp;quot; says almost nobody.</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>Well, the author is talking about the &amp;quot;mainstream internet&amp;quot; that most people think of: we used to have to point out that the internet wasn&amp;#x27;t the same thing as the world wide web, now we have to point out that it isn&amp;#x27;t the same thing as facebook, twitter and amazon.  There&amp;#x27;s nothing &lt;i&gt;inevitable&lt;/i&gt; about a centralized internet technologically: packet-switched networking is by it&amp;#x27;s nature decentralized.  However, my pipe dream of someday seeing a truly decentralized mesh network that nobody can ever control or censor gets less hopeful every day - not because it&amp;#x27;s technically infeasible, but because it would require more people to get on board than I believe people have the will for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mundo</author><text>And specifically, few people want to join services that are mostly populated by people who got kicked off of other services.</text></comment>