Thanks for the update.
The list may be dead, but p2p and commons initiatives are still growing.
In terms of technical alternatives, there seems quite a bit available and many people have left mainstream social media, think of Urbit for the libertarians, Mastodon, etc ...
Urban commons have grown tenfold from 2006 to 2016, and the organizations I work more closely with, are all growing at a brisk pace,
I think what has derailed some of the momentum is the polarisation in the political and social movements, with various tribes going their own way, using their own politically filtered platforms, with technical centralization replaced by distributed moral censorship for the ideas of the competing tribes.
Michel
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Today's Topics:
1. Re-igniting the p2p revolution (\0xDynamite)
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:47:32 -0700
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Subject: [P2P-F] Re-igniting the p2p revolution
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This list is dead. Either people didn't fully understand the
potential of p2p networks or the need for it got magically sublimated
into everyday capitalism. Nah.
But what happened to the revolution? Where are the nerds and
cyberpunks who wished to change the world? Have they assimilated with
their billion-dollar IPO jobs and climbing the new curve of
exponential growth?
The Internet under the standard client-server model has turned
everyone, one again, into consumers. The curve of GDP has gotten
higher with its new access to these elite tools. But it's a sinking
ship. Everyone knows this, deep down.
An adult's cellular network generally becomes hierarchical with some
sort of strict immune system code at the top, holding dominant beliefs
about the world forming a sort of religious order which is called
their "ego". People come to identify with this and protect it.
A child's cellular network acts more like a p2p network -- each is
equal in a mind that has no religion. The attitude is "whatever
works" and, internally, "whoever can do the job". Everyone else will
protect themselves -- you don't need hierarchies of security,
political correctness, or whatever new religion the world is
demanding.
Be like the child.
Mark Janssen
PS. http://github.com/thePastor/Singularity
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