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layout: "post" title: "Why use federated networks" date: 2018-01-15 tags: - fediverse preview: "a less technical article, for your friend and your grandma" url: "https://test.com" lang: en image: ""
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It may be a less technical article, for your friend and your grandma. Explaining with vivid examples why privacy is important, how corporate entities are misusing their capabilities, etc.
For motivation, see this article by M. Marlinspike elaborating on why federation is not the future. There are few good articles about the strong points of federated / decentralized networks on the net. Some of those few are research papers using obscure scientific language. Would be really nice to have a thorough writing on why Moxy didn't get the point of federation. That may be its point is not about providing same smooth experience for everyone (which, really, is quite hard). May be its point is in promoting a whole new concept, in users expecting to lose certain convenient features of centralized systems in exchange for benefits that a centralized system can not guarantee. Singling out these benefits, as well as describing weak points of centralized systems (remembering some facts along the way)...
I'll add some links to research papers on decentralization later. Please, don't hesitate to join and help writing this article.