I find this an interesting remark, in all likelyhood, corporate platforms do reverse engineering, ie. they start from user needs and build backwards,

the opposite strategy, building a pure internet but not looking at user needs, may suffer in comparison,

Michel

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New answer to "What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet?"

 
Leslie Michael Orchard:
Some other characteristics to note involve practical usability, eg. what happens after I plug in the magic black box I just bought:

  • Discoverability - how do I find friends and interesting things?
  • Aggregation - how can I follow friends and interesting things I find?
  • Publishing - how can I broadcast interesting things to my friends and followers?

These are some of the things that centralized communication services are nailing, at the moment. No matter how the underlying fabric of a distributed net is made, if it doesn't serve some of these basic human-centric needs, it won't take off.

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