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"If we put all economics aside, it's obvious the web should be organised this and this way..."

What I'd really like to see is decentralised web proponents (of which I'm no longer one) put out some ideas for how their model is going to support economic activity of any interesting kind. Yes, selling advertising by centralising eyeballs is shit, but show me something better.

The alternative is to either wait for capitalism to finally be over (spoiler alert: they're planning another season, starting January 20), or to get a second gig as a gardener to fund my web habit.




We shouldn't let unresolved economics stop us, but here's what I've written previously: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rad_Decentralization/comments/5j878...


> Subscription services will still be an option, even in a P2P Web, but we are trying to reduce the natural monopoly of the dataset (no walled gardens) so that might make affect service revenue by increasing competition. I'm not sure how destabilizing it will be.

If a service can be destabilized by the lack of a walled garden to lock in users, then it's in society's best interest for that service to be destabilized, because that means there are other competing services that users want to use, but can't because of the size of the existing service's network effects.

The status quo of services competing mainly by the sizes of their network effects is completely hostile to innovation, experimentation, and user choice. Any efforts that could disrupt this status quo has my full support!


Completely agree




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