hodlbod on Nostr: Why do we keep re-implementing the p2p/internet alternative and failing to get it ...
Why do we keep re-implementing the p2p/internet alternative and failing to get it right? I'm taking my time at the airport to read about pear, arweave, freenet, gnunet, threefold, 384, i2p, tor, xmpp, p2panda, etc. It seems like the basic problem is not that hard, but it's complex enough that people can have an infinite number of opinions about how to approach it, and because we're all grumpy dissidents here we can't compromise and get along. i2p for example has an awful UI, which could be largely fixed if a single developer put some time into cleaning it up. People have been trying to fix the internet for as long as I've been alive, using many of the same techniques. Why is it not fixed?
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