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Decent Decentralisation

https://berjon.com/decent-imaginaries/

Good counter to the focus on protocols.

> a protocol needs to achieve two things: it needs to prevent the accumulation of power imbalances between parties … and it needs to make it easy for users to cooperate in building the the rules they want for how the protocol's operation affects them … the success of decentralisation and … of a democratic digital world **rides not only on liberation but also on organising**.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@maegul @fediverse @robin This is a great summary:

> failing to build the cooperation layer leads right back to capture no matter how good the tool. That's why git is simultaneously an extremely successful self-certifying system and a failed attempt at decentralisation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Failed attempt at decentralisation? Is this referring to the popularity of GitHub?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@otl @maegul @fediverse Yes, find the full article at the top of the thread

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah sorry yes I read the article, was just checking I understood the comment.
The workflows enabled by git that were painful with, say, Subversion or CVS, are significant. The overwhelming popularity of GitHub is regretful in the sense there is authority captured there, but the development of the tech (DVCS) means that GitHub is not *as* critical as before. For me this is something to celebrate!

Perfect? No way. Failure? Seems over-the-top.
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