diff --git a/proposed/cozy_personal_server.md b/canceled/cozy_personal_server.md similarity index 100% rename from proposed/cozy_personal_server.md rename to canceled/cozy_personal_server.md diff --git a/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md b/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md deleted file mode 100644 index adc6447..0000000 --- a/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -#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 -