Nostr Web Client

What people want is, I believe, the following things:

Privacy: data protection, metadata protection, and IP privacy.

Censorship Resistance: decentralization purports to assist in this goal, but I don't think "decentralization" is the goal.. the goal is censorship resistance.

Control and Independence: people don't want to be locked-in to one provider that could in the future disappoint them.

The following hot ideas are not so hot in my book:

federation - if you are still locked in, this just changes the scale of centralized lock-in.

blockchain - an ugly solution to a problem that nobody has.

p2p - an artificial binding of clients to servers (I will explain in a sister thread).

ynniv 5mo ago

This slide jumped out at me:

1. privacy

2. censorship resistance

3. availability

4. control

But privacy is a subset of control. Censorship resistance is a subset of availability. There are only two things here: control, and availability.

control * availability = agency

Therefore, the purpose of distributed systems is agency

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 5mo ago

nice.

He makes passing reference at people wanting control over data and metadata (point 4 in your list) but doesn't explain why, and counterpoints it with his best argument which is that centralized solutions can evolve faster.

Daniel Wigton 5mo ago

Lol, that is a funny statement. That is like a Royal line thinking they will evolve faster if they keep it in the family. I don't think we all know what evolve means.