Ancestors

Written by Dan on 2024-10-28 at 22:31

It seems to me that #decentralization projects, particularly radical ones, often have a certain pattern. It starts with a grand vision of full decentralization and wide adoption. Then real development starts and corners are cut "for now" for pragmatic reasons. There aren't enough developer resources to make the fully decentralized version user-friendly enough for a wider audience.

So we're balancing 1) decentralization vs 2) usability and 3) developer resources.

Well, I had a thought:

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Toot

Written by Dan on 2024-10-28 at 22:34

We're really only used to balancing 1) and 2). But what if, just as an experiment, we modulated 3)?

What if we made an absolute bare minimum decentralized project. Doesn't matter what it is. But we cut absolutely zero corners on decentralization, but still gave it good usability? Could we build and deploy such a product/app/etc to a wide audience?

I don't know what it would be. Maybe it's a decentralized "Yo". Except, it would have to be actually useful.

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Descendants

Written by Dan on 2024-10-28 at 22:35

And if this experiment works out, once this micro-app is in wide adoption, maybe we can begin to hitch a ride on that. Maybe we can start to add features. Instead of starting "pragmatically" with a plan to eventually reach decentralization that never quite gets there.

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Written by Martin Owens :inkscape: on 2024-10-28 at 22:55

@ill_logic

I have an idea to make a decentralised jobs board. Follow certain geographies and skills and get notifications about new jobs. Or just browse what's posted in a section. Posts time out, etc etc.

Thoughts?

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Written by Dan on 2024-10-28 at 23:12

@doctormo hmm, is there a reason would you want a job board in particular to be decentralized?

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Written by Martin Owens :inkscape: on 2024-10-28 at 23:45

@ill_logic

Yes; I think it would be possible to share postings between servers, linking up with other places that record jobs etc.

The point is to have specialised tools which are designed around this particular function instead of just being a hash tag.

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Written by Dan on 2024-10-28 at 23:51

@doctormo Would it work with ActivityPub?

I wonder if this could fix some of the incentive problems in job boards.

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