• buh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Blockchains and decentralized apps have been around for years now, why has nobody found some useful purpose for it yet?

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I mean, the only useful purpose of decentralized apps I've seen is the fediverse and the sort of interlinks between chat applications via XMPP and the like

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      it makes enormous design concessions to avoid all centralization which is only a necessary design constraint for avoiding state intervention. it appeals to people who make the mistake of thinking government is necessarily always against the will of the people, who discard the possibility of a dictatorship of the proletariat.