David Vorick expressed: Decentralization requires paying for your own infrastructure. If your experience is being subsidized by someone else, they can take your participation rights away from you. This post applies to Twitter just as much as it applies to Infura.
You may not like it, but SimpDAO is the future.
Participating in the Skynet ecosystem will require the technical sophistication of an Amish grandma.
Next step for the Skynet kernel: letting users load custom react apps at any skynet domain.
One of the key design goals of the Skynet kernel is to make the bootloader (the code in the browser extension) tiny and static, which makes it trivial for any existing extension to add support for Skynet. Users don’t even have to know its there.
Building fully decentralized applications is hard in the same way as being a 2000 rated chess player is hard. Magnus Carlson can play at a 2000 level when he’s drunk, blindfolded, and has 2 seconds per move. It’s a skill you build, and then its just easy.
Couldn’t be happier to see that when faced with criticism about the token burn, the Sia Foundation responded by resetting, greatly increasing transparency, and opening a public discussion about the best way to manage their treasury. That’s not easy to do.
One of the things you can do with Homescreen is build a user-controlled governance process around accepting new updates. Users could for example wait to update until some set of beta testers have asserted that the upgrade is worthwhile.
That’s the goal. Decentralize humanity enough that there is no sufficiently prevalent culture to be called ‘mainstream’. This also works as a defense against propaganda, which has the most success when attacking a critical mass of same-think.
Many people use the phrase “decentralization is a spectrum” as an excuse to waive away glaring and crippling centralized elements of their infrastructure. When building the Titanic: “Unsinkable is a spectrum”
You can’t call a product decentralized unless every part of the core user experience is fully decentralized. Every centralized element is a hook for embrace/extend/extinguish and a hostage situation that someone can throw upon your ecosystem.
I wonder how much effort it would take to port graphite to Skynet. Skynet doesn’t have any dependence on developer infra, so there are no “this app is shutting down” moments
And we need to keep this in mind for crypto as well. Simply being a free market doesn’t guarantee a good outcome. We need to build a market where the incentives for all players are aligned with our desired objectives.
You need to ensure that the market design allows the best idea to gain traction. In a monopolistic setting, that just doesn’t happen. The monopoly owner can crush innovation, and can force unwanted features onto users who have no viable alternative to turn to.
And I know a lot of free market advocates think that it’s fine, because if it wasn’t the best, someone else would come in and out-compete. But I’ve spent my whole life building markets and markets aren’t magic: they only work if you set them up correctly.
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