diff --git a/confirmed/secession_from_broadcast.md b/confirmed/secession_from_broadcast.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adc6447 --- /dev/null +++ b/confirmed/secession_from_broadcast.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +#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 +