what Solana did with Ethereum? 😅 😬 😥 

(from https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/)

I shared that post mainly because I disagreed with most of it. :)

But above all, federation is not decentralization.

Fiat is centralized, SWIFT is federated, Ethereum is decentralized.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

have you written your disagreement in longer form? I'd love to read it. I'm not sure where I shake out atm, but I do find a lot of his points compelling

I honestly don't think moxie is willing to entertain the differences. It's a false dichotomy as I said in the other thread with @links (centralized vs federated, ignoring decentralization). I am not advocating for federation.

Yes, it's sometimes faster to iterate when you're centralized, but here's a strong counterexample: permissive open source is as decentralized as it gets, and it almost always wins in open market conditions against centralized proprietary competitors. Have to build abusive monopolies and walled gardens to keep an edge.

It's not my fav post anymore but this 2021 era piece talks about it too:

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

i'll check it out, thanks

OSS is interesting because it is often actually quite centralized in terms of roadmap (linus was a dictator..), and it often gets eaten by adjacent layers (e.g. many successful OSS projects are moving away from it as they get eaten by ~AWS; uniswap also moved off to BUSL, etc)

it is not a network so it doesn't actually fit in this dichotomy i think (signal itself, which he runs, is built on plenty of OSS..?)

I honestly don't think moxie is willing to entertain the differences. It's a false dichotomy as I said in the other thread with @links (centralized vs federated, ignoring decentralization). I am not advocating for federation.

Yes, it's sometimes faster to iterate when you're centralized, but here's a strong counterexample: permissive open source is as decentralized as it gets, and it almost always wins in open market conditions against centralized proprietary competitors. Have to build abusive monopolies and walled gardens to keep an edge.

It's not my fav post anymore but this 2021 era piece talks about it too: https://shazow.net/posts/decentralization/