As we enter the 2020s, centralised power and decentralised communities are on the verge of outright conflict for the control of the digital public space. The resilience of centralised networks and the political organisation of their owners remains significantly underestimated by protocol activists. At the same time, the peer-to-peer community is dangerously unprepared for a crisis-fuelled future that has very suddenly arrived at their door.
  • null_radixOP
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    4 years ago

    Notes:

    • “Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When the crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.” Favorite quote.

    • “attempt to alter technology for political reasons by repurposing technological artifacts without concerning oneself with altering the process that produced said technology.” Yeah this is why so many “revolutionary” startups are anything but revolutionary.

    • Sure freenet. But freenet had other problems.

    • The Fediverse has also grappled with its own limitations in threat modelling, such as failing to collectively anticipate the establishment of far right and fascist political Instances – deplatformed refugees from dominant social media platforms.

    yep. if anything decentralization will accelerate the inflation of truth.

    In 2020, everyone is relevant. In 2020, anyone can be important. In 2020, anyone’s ideas can spread around the world in seconds. - a general theory of collaboration