"Recently, a reader asked me to lay out the concerns about centralization and decentralization in relation to the internet......The people who own networks can change the rules at any time, and not just from a free-speech standpoint: Recently, Vimeo faced controversy over how it changed its business model to charge heavy consumers for the bandwidth their videos … Continue reading Centralization vs. Decentralization
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Conceal Network
"Conceal Network is a secure peer-to-peer privacy framework empowering individuals and organizations to anonymously communicate and interact financially in a decentralized and censorship resistant environment."-https://conceal.network/
History Rhymes
"Sometime this November, he estimates, half the world’s population—close to 4 billion people—will be connected online, sharing everything from résumés to political views to DNA information. As billions more come online, they will feed trillions of additional bits of information into the Web, making it more powerful, more valuable, and potentially more dangerous than ever.... … Continue reading History Rhymes
Solarpunk: Against a Shitty Future
"Solarpunk is about 'ingenuity, generativity, independence, and community' — the last of which is of particular interest — and rightly sees 'infrastructure as a form of resistance.' Politically, the stories vary, but they always feature a progressive focus on race, gender, and equality of all kinds: many revolve around themes of difference, recognition, and acceptance. … Continue reading Solarpunk: Against a Shitty Future
Scuttlebutt – An Off-Grid Social Network
https://vimeo.com/236358264 "It’s a decentralized system for sending messages to a specific community, rather than the global internet. It works by word of mouth. Instead of posting to an online service like Facebook or Twitter, Scuttlebutt applications hold onto their data locally. When a user runs into a friend, the system automatically synchronizes its stored updates … Continue reading Scuttlebutt – An Off-Grid Social Network
Redecentralize the Internet
"Every new medium (read: technology) has four sets of effects, he said, which can be best discovered in answers to four questions: What does the medium enhance What does the medium make obsolete? What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier? What does the medium reverse, or flip into, when pushed to extremes?" … Continue reading Redecentralize the Internet
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