• Pohl@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The real charlatans were the “the technology has promise” people. No, the technology was dumb.

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      10 months ago

      He says on a decentralized platform that became popular because the centralized equivalent became hostile towards their users.

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          10 months ago

          Yes, in the same way that federated and decentralized aren’t interchangeable.

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            10 months ago

            You’re dodging the point that being in favour of decentralising doesn’t mean being a blockchain bro

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              So are you pushing a non-blockchain based decentralised ledger solution then, or did the point they were dodging actually just go over your head?

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                  Well, it’s been about 15 years, and everything else we’ve found so far has been shitter. So just, give up on decentralisation I guess?