Comment by sdoering | Hacker News Reader

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I like the tone. But what the author describes as potentially world changing enablers is not triple entry blogging, but open standards, open APIs and (very) easy to use distributed nodes in some Form of mesh that uses these open standards to build cool stuff on top of this networked open standards based mesh.

I just sadly doubt that most people outside a very specific bubble would want to have their own node in said network. Even without the need to care for it, think about hosting and so on.

Most people are fine with using "rented real estate" on a centralized platform. It doesn't cost them time, nor money (advertising and data collection as revenue streams). They connect with people (social networks) or use a service (Goodreads) to achieve some form of goal.

Why would say add any friction for themselves? Any complexity above that?

A much as I would love to have these decentralized open networks, I will miss them in the future. Sadly it seems that central platforms have won.

I play Blood Bowl, both in virtually and as the little miniature game, and since every Danish person in the world of Denmark is basically on Facebook and nowhere else, it’s been the primary platform for coordinating leagues and tournaments for the past many years. The platform has gotten so bad at it though, that there are serious thoughts about moving somewhere else, the issue being that everyone is on Facebook and nowhere else.

Maybe you’re going to be correct, but I think that these closed platforms are all going to do what Facebook has and slowly become places that a lot of their users no longer like. In that environment I think someone is going to come a long with a decentralised form of social media the way e-mail or a phone works that is easy enough to connect through that everyone in Denmark is going to be on that and not everywhere else.

I think the only reason it doesn’t exists yet is because you sort or needed a world where GitHub pages, and Dropbox, and so on figured out a way to sell their platform IRON through the use of open APIs. I think it’s coming though.

> Maybe you’re going to be correct, but I think that these closed platforms are all going to do what Facebook has and slowly become places that a lot of their users no longer like.

I agree with platforms turning into a state that is not liked by their users. While I still have my FB account more than one year ago I removed everything as an experiment and didn't want to return after a month.

IG is becoming more and more the same for me, while I still use it for a secondary account for business. I still don't like it.

I would love for some Form of decentralized thing that I could host as well as could join a network that monetizes somehow and offers space for people who don't want to host. All embedded in a Form of mesh that enables shared groups across nodes, discovery, followship while enabling me to decide what specific parts/apps/tools to host and use and how much I am willing to share.

Edit and btw: Greetings from near Hamburg only "slightly south of the border" ;)

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