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It's time to travel to the edges because this is where the interesting stuff 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. happens. "What is popular" is rarely a question that helps finding edges.
In this talk round i'll recap what i learned in 15 months of my I'd like to recap what i learned in 15 months of my re-juvenated and
re-juvenated and re-energized quest into decentralization and what it re-energized quest into decentralization and what it might mean.
means.
For one, I'd like to present a question from Gene Youngblood's 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 [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 same scale as we can destroy?". Gene suggests we need to move away from
the "Audience nation" by becoming "political actors" instead of the "audience nation" by becoming "political actors" instead of
"interested spectators of action". "interested spectators of action".
Second, I highlight a thought from Adam Ierymenko [2]: If full Second, I paraphrase a thought from Adam Ierymenko's [I want to
decentralization is technically too hard currently, can we construct and believe][2]: If full decentralization is technically too hard currently,
make use of a **Blind Idiot God** (BIG) instance which co-ordinates some can we construct and make use of a "Blind Idiot God" (BIG) instance
communication but can not abuse it or even understand what's going on which co-ordinates some communication but can not abuse it or even
precisely? understand what's going on precisely?
Lastly, how can we create sustained systems and products if we Lastly, I wonder how can we create sustained systems and services if we
don't want to imitate the centralized web service cash cow model? don't want the centralized web service cash cow control model?
As Laura Kolbag [3] pointed out recently in Nuernberg, paying As Laura Kolbag [3] pointed out recently in Nuernberg, paying
for software might not be so bad if the "free to use" models for software might not be so bad if the "free to use" models
mean surveillance and centralized control. And she suggests mean surveillance and centralized control. And she notes
that design and useability should drive Open Source software that design and useability should drive open source developments
instead of features and options. instead of features and options.
The edges are where we encounter the others, those who are somehow The edges are where we encounter the others, those who are somehow unlike.
not like us. It's a place where i easily run into fears. At the edges 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. The there is no central authority suggesting what to think or do next. And
number of people at the edges is by definition lower than in the center. the number of people at the edges is always lower than in the center.
But it's where things can happen. Secession from the broadcast. 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/ [1] http://www.secessionfromthebroadcast.org/2013/10/29/secession-broadcast-internet-crisis-social-control/
[2] http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/ [2] http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/
[3] https://border-none.net/2014/scene-setters#c81 [3] https://border-none.net/2014/scene-setters#c81

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