Post B4hQJ9PX99zwtnvyyW by yohan@social.xenofem.me
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 (DIR) Post #B4hOjpEE5nekDOEkca by sun@shitposter.world
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       Ethereum is spiritually and functionally controlled by one man, Vitalik, but it is still far more decentralized in practice than here, which has a dozen chokepoints
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hPlPv5GECoFqbdi4 by ilja@ilja.space
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       @sun i don't follow it much or closely, but from bits i see, i also have the impression he really does believe in decentralisation. not sure if that's an accurate impression i have?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hPlQ7UW688sKPY36 by sun@shitposter.world
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       @ilja He does. The "issue" is that he is a single person that can say something and Ethereum will probably change to accommodate that. It's a form of centralization but realistically you replace that with a committee and the chokepoint just shifts somewhere else
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hPym3uFPFIgz6NPs by sun@shitposter.world
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       @ilja he recently spoke out in favor of sticking to decentralization and "cypherpunk values" and a fuckton of "founders" cried out in pain
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hQ3tZPl9nzQVHW2S by ilja@ilja.space
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       @sun yeah, that's a bit the duality i also see. and i think you gave fedi as a nice example. not one person who has a say, but in practice this also means more decisions where decentralisation isn't taken into account, leading to less decentralisation in practice.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hQ3tkl4ysZzgaZii by sun@shitposter.world
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       @ilja in theory the Fediverse is an agreement on a protocol, in practice you follow exactly one guy's implementation that doesn't even follow the spec or your shit doesn't work
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hQJ9PX99zwtnvyyW by yohan@social.xenofem.me
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       @sun @ilja due to the fundamental nature of software development every structure of it inevitably leads to dictatorship
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hQLNdpD1QXc5gLPU by sun@shitposter.world
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       @yohan @ilja I agree and I actually think embracing that is better outcome
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hQzvaYPgaMTxUELI by yohan@social.xenofem.me
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       @sun @ilja can you elaborate? I dont know how that can be a good thing considering i would still like to believe in free software
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hQzvpnV0mLFEcP6O by sun@shitposter.world
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       @yohan @ilja single vision produces better outcome than groups. if someone doesn't like it,fork
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hR1U3bkGrpfromxM by ilja@ilja.space
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       @sun cool! yeh, i really think the cypherpunk parts have gone out of the whole cryptocurrency thing since 2017 or so.. suddenly it was all about the money :( it's cool that at least one influential person is keeping to it then, and more impressive even, who can keep the project relevant in spite of sticking to these values!
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hcbqemIUIfgbkMJk by yakumo_izuru@misskey.m544.net
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       @sun@shitposter.world largely Mastodon for one (yes I will continue shitting on it, I hate that thing)