Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

I dont know why I can't get around this in my head but I'm fully convinced that the singular problem with P2P as the foundation of the internet is simply that we could never monetize it.

I mean seriously P2P dominated all web traffic for more than half a decade. And that's *without* any way to monetize, and it was only when the establishment capitulated that things shifted back.

Now we have numerous decentralized and P2P protocols and an open digital money to monetize it all without any third parties, and we have Ai expanding the capability to write software more than any other tool in internet history... and I can't see how this doesn't swing back in a massive way.

In other words - I think people who are discounting P2P because of limitations and failures of the past, aren't properly understanding the past or its limitations, imo.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I intend to put it to the test.
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Thekid.999 8mo ago

No, it's because YouTube twitch rumble all these centralized places have money to pay these people to stay there

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Guy Swann 8mo ago

You are thinking too specific and too “current.” There is no way that advertising or audience support can be cheaper while supporting a giant middle man corporation than it is directly.

The economics of it suggest at some point the network effects and limitations of the tools or UX simply won’t be in the way anymore (I think a million new “programmers” accelerates TF out of that). And at that point the economics (and the many other benefits it comes with) will cause the shift.