Sadly true: “So long as federation means stasis while centralization means movement, federated protocols are going to have trouble existing in a software climate that demands movement as it does today.” signal.org/blog/the-ecosyste…

Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software develo...

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Jan 4, 2022 · 7:19 AM UTC

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(In all fairness though, HTTP has evolved quite a bit)
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It is sadly true. For the internet as a all, because decentralisation is needed for its own survival. That's said, I see one counter-example to the list provided by Moxie: Bitcoin. It is decentralised, but since its development is centralised. They do arrive to make it evolve.
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Related:
vitalik.eth
 @VitalikButerin
19 Dec 2021
The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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Good point. When was the last meaningful change regarding SMTP, POP or IMAP? 🤔 I guess those are the widest adopted federated protocols.
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True, although the centralization around Chromium is worrying, of course
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