From e0abf1bf838bba353fd0df1d77ddefd0ef5911af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Set Hallstrom Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:32:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated '_posts/2020-10-23-streaming-to-the-masses.md' via CloudCannon --- _posts/2020-10-23-streaming-to-the-masses.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_posts/2020-10-23-streaming-to-the-masses.md b/_posts/2020-10-23-streaming-to-the-masses.md index da43725..d2f67f8 100644 --- a/_posts/2020-10-23-streaming-to-the-masses.md +++ b/_posts/2020-10-23-streaming-to-the-masses.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The shadiness remained while the transfer to the Internet went on. Worse: it got ## 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 corporations and governments slowly catched up with the web, huge silos emerged, capturing the social essence of it into the well known services are so "familiar" today. (Services that 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. Getting inspiration from century old techniques of power-shattering: decentralization and federation. The silos had to be gone and to do this, protection from said silos had to be built into the tools. 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 addicted 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. +Of course not\! Dreams don't die, silly. If anything adversity tends to sharpen the escapism they contain. As the corporations and governments slowly catched up with the web, huge silos emerged, capturing the social essence of it into the well known services are so "familiar" today. (Services that 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. Getting inspiration from century old techniques of power-shattering: decentralization and federation. The silos had to be gone and to get rid of them, protection from said silos had to be built into the tools. 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 grew from this desire. They didn't just appear of course\! And while a majority of the public had their eyes on social media, getting addicted 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" >