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[echelon]

If we had a fully P2P and distributed architecture for information exchange, this wouldn't be a problem.

As it stands, we choose centralized websites and platforms to be how we exchange information. They're an essential ingredient in the "common carrier" recipe.

How can your parents share messages without Comcast + Facebook?

[vlunkr → echelon]

We choose to use centralize platforms out of convenience, but if Facebook magically disappeared, people would immediately move to one of the many alternatives.

[echelon → vlunkr]

That's not a counter argument to what I've said. It's a platitude that I think everyone agrees on.

You don't even need to conjure "magical disappearance". Social networks often come and go as fads. YikYak, Snapchat, TikTok.

The thesis of what I said is that P2P mechanics are largely invariant of and shielded from business decisions, social mores, etc.

We should consider building more P2P things.

[bob33212 → echelon]

E-mail

[echelon → bob33212]

Is email the predominant form of communication people?

How many teenagers are raving about sending memes over email?

edit: My point isn't to say email isn't an instance of federated/p2p communication, but rather we need more types of communication to be run on P2P rails. Social, forums, media...