Blockchain
Oct 2017
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Eugene Pilyankevich
Why decentralized social services fail
It often feels like distributed and federated services provide better resiliency, risk management, and privacy than typical star-topology systems. However, Facebook et al. provide and maintain huge, single-point-of-entry, solely owned, walled gardens with hostile privacy policies, and yet they successfully serve millions of users, attracting some of the best engineering talents along the way.