It'd be cool if people making decentralized p2p protocols had flagship apps that were than "a chat app but only for people wanting to bother using this protocol". Most folks don't get much utility from yet another chat app and it's just the diehards that will bother joining and end up only using it to talk to each other while developer hours continue to not serve adoption at large.
This post brought to you by the Minima blockchain whitepaper. But honestly it seems every single neat protocol is doing this. https://docs.minima.global/minima_pdfs/Minima_Whitepaper_v11.pdf
@mauve I believe another downside of bitcoin is the current hostile take over by specifically Blockstream.
So my take away would be: how do you keep development decentralized? I'm not talking about the code, but I'm talking about companies, developers and contributors who might influence, pressure or do anything otherwise against the will of a (smaller) minority. Especially when the stakes are too high (read money).
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i mean, that's why i still like dat the most 🙂
Keet i soon gonna hit beta and become open sourced. The runtime already is.
People continue building new cool stuff on top of it. The latest new dat-ecosystem projects are "holesail" (think: pfrazee's spork), and "peerviewer" (think: p2p team viewer).
New stuff is getting added, the runtime gets better and better every day.
It's also not new and going since 2013
I think it's mostly ppl running after where they get paid (understandably)