saltyhitler

> For a federated, decentralized system to work and resist centralization, it has to be the case that running a node is dead simple, cheap, and out-of-sight/out-of-mind.

Imagine your ISP bundling a full node together with your modem etc. That would be a start.

> I think one day we'll discover some ways to decentralize things in ways that resist re-centralization

Centralization unfortunately is still at the core, but we should strive to add more nodes so we can achieve more distribution. The more distributed the system, the less corruptible it would be.

As much as I hate censorship and blocking of content, I believe there is a place for it, for example, you don't want kids seeing pornography and the likes but I do hate it when they do it for political reasons, blocking campaigns or even conspiracy theories, I believe the mind should be able to explore and be critical of everything, this means being able to see/watch everything and analyze.

I agree and that's why I said server based images should be small but for user based OSes, for development work or browsing, size should be the last thing on the feature list. It's the development mindset that is pushing for small OS sizes and we should put that in the backburner in exchange for a good user experience.

Not sure why the obsession with OS size. I don't mind having a 1GB OS that has really good functionality vs a 50MB one that has none. I do want size to be a factor for server based images which is a different beast altogether.