[P2P-F] Fwd: New answer to "What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet?"

Wed Feb 23 09:12:45 CET 2011

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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[image: Quora]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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