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**.
By @robin
@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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Failed attempt at decentralisation? Is this referring to the popularity of GitHub?
@astrojuanlu @maegul @fediverse
@otl @maegul @fediverse Yes, find the full article at the top of the thread