You cannot select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
52 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
52 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
10 years ago
|
#infos
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
auth-name : holger krekel
|
||
|
|
tag : decentralization, edges, questions
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
advance costs : N
|
||
|
|
need room : Y
|
||
|
|
Location : Freiburg, Germany
|
||
|
|
Can host ppl : na
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
# Secession from the broadcast
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
It's time to travel to the edges because this is where the interesting stuff
|
||
|
|
happens. "What is popular" is rarely a question that helps finding edges.
|
||
|
|
I'd like to recap what i learned in 15 months of my re-juvenated and
|
||
|
|
re-energized quest into decentralization and what it might mean.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
For one, I'd like to forward a question from Gene Youngblood's
|
||
|
|
[Secession from the broadcast lecture][1]: "how can we create on the
|
||
|
|
same scale as we can destroy?". Gene suggests we need to move away from
|
||
|
|
the "audience nation" by becoming "political actors" instead of
|
||
|
|
"interested spectators of action".
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Second, I paraphrase a thought from Adam Ierymenko's [I want to
|
||
|
|
believe][2]: If full decentralization is technically too hard currently,
|
||
|
|
can we construct and make use of a "Blind Idiot God" (BIG) instance
|
||
|
|
which co-ordinates some communication but can not abuse it or even
|
||
|
|
understand what's going on precisely?
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Lastly, I wonder how can we create sustained systems and services if we
|
||
|
|
don't want the centralized web service cash cow control model?
|
||
|
|
As Laura Kolbag [3] pointed out recently in Nuernberg, paying
|
||
|
|
for software might not be so bad if the "free to use" models
|
||
|
|
mean surveillance and centralized control. And she notes
|
||
|
|
that design and useability should drive open source developments
|
||
|
|
instead of features and options.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The edges are where we encounter the others, those who are somehow unlike.
|
||
|
|
It's a place where i easily run into fears and look for friends. At the edges
|
||
|
|
there is no central authority suggesting what to think or do next. And
|
||
|
|
the number of people at the edges is always lower than in the center.
|
||
|
|
But that's fine, this is how things get moving as i've experienced
|
||
|
|
myself a number of times now.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
[1] http://www.secessionfromthebroadcast.org/2013/10/29/secession-broadcast-internet-crisis-social-control/
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
[2] http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
[3] https://border-none.net/2014/scene-setters#c81
|
||
|
|
|