hq/basspistol.com
hq/basspistol.com
4
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Updated '_posts/2020-10-22-streaming-to-the-masses.md' via CloudCannon

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Set Hallstrom 2020-10-23 12:13:01 +00:00 committed by CloudCannon
parent 1920edf968
commit b608ab3527
1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

8
_posts/2020-10-22-streaming-to-the-masses.md
View file

@ -40,15 +40,17 @@ And the shadiness remained while the transfer to the Internet went on, worse it
## But did the dream die though?
Of course not\! Dreams don't die, silly. If anything adversity tends to sharpen the escapism they contain. As the corporation and government slowly catched up with the web. Huge silos where emerged, capturing the social essence of it into the well known services that have come to be almost familiar. (They certainly don't need another mention here). And the information flow halted. What was once a wild jungle of cross-pollinating ideas and wildfires became a massive apparatus of advertisement and monitoring. A wall was built around the general public. To most people joining internet after 2010, it quickly felt like technical progress was merely another button in their favorite app or a better way to weed out annoying acquaintances. But beyond those walls, passionate geeks kept on building. This time with the errors of the past in mind. Not aiming for perfection, but for alternatives. The silos had to be gone and to do this, protection from it had to built-in the tools, getting inspiration from century old techniques of power-shattering: decentralization and federation. Making it impossible for a single entity to control the network had to become an integral part of the system. The [fediverse,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse){: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} the [dweb,](https://dwebx.org/){: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/){: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} among others. They didn't just appear of course\! And while a majority of the public had their eyes on social media, getting adicted to dopamine, a forum was exploring new ways to approach one of the most fundamental tool of communication between humans: money.
Of course not\! Dreams don't die, silly. If anything adversity tends to sharpen the escapism they contain. As the corporation and government slowly catched up with the web. Huge silos where emerged, capturing the social essence of it into the well known services that have come to be almost familiar. (They certainly don't need another mention here). And the information flow halted. What was once a wild jungle of cross-pollinating ideas and wildfires became a massive apparatus of advertisement and monitoring. A wall was built around the general public. To most people joining internet after 2010, it quickly felt like technical progress was merely another button in their favorite app or a better way to weed out annoying acquaintances. But beyond those walls, passionate geeks kept on building. This time with the errors of the past in mind. Not aiming for perfection, but for alternatives. The silos had to be gone and to do this, protection from it had to built-in the tools, getting inspiration from century old techniques of power-shattering: decentralization and federation. Making it impossible for a single entity to control the network had to become an integral part of the system. The [fediverse,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse){: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} the [dweb,](https://dwebx.org/){: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/){: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} among others. They didn't just appear of course\! And while a majority of the public had their eyes on social media, getting adicted to dopamine, [a forum called "P2P Foundation"](https://p2pfoundation.net/){: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} was exploring new ways to approach one of the most fundamental tool of communication between humans: money.
> "We can’t imagine to enter the Information Age without changing the fundamental and most used communication tool: Money"
>
>
> – [Bernard Lietaer](http://lietaer.com)
## Yeah, right, whatever this got to do with music...
## Yeah, right\! Drop the bass already...
Now, i understand this is a lot to unpack and i'm doing my best not to dewleve into details.
Now, i understand this is a lot to unpack and I'm doing my best not to devolve into details. In fact, I'm writing this shit because I'm trying to get clarity in my own ideas and you are just a guinea pig lol\! Not like that, but... OK sorry.
You see, all of the above super simplified geek shit is useful for this bomb: people have built tools combining all the ideas that emerged from the problems the silos got us into\!\!\!\!\!\! The lack of ownership over your own brand, the centralized nature of the data-base, the complexity of running your own service, how to incentives participation, how to distribute the revenue stream according the listeners choices. By combining decentralized Content Delivery Networks with the new means of communication of executive power (money) developed by the P2P foundation