Decentralize the feedback infrastructure!
Pedro Garcia Lopez

TL;DR
This paper advocates for decentralizing Internet feedback infrastructure through open standards and interoperability, aiming to reduce control by large corporations and promote competition and user empowerment.
Contribution
It proposes a comprehensive decentralized infrastructure model based on open source technologies and standards to enable disintermediation and open competition.
Findings
Sketches a decentralized communication and sharing infrastructure
Highlights the importance of interoperability standards
Suggests open source technologies as the foundation
Abstract
The decentralized architecture of Internet sparkled techno-utopian visions of a virtual freedom space for humanity. Peer-to-peer systems, collaborative creation (wikipedia), open source software (Linux), universal shared knowledge, and the hopes for disintermediation contributed to this major vision. However, the reality is bleak: centralization is reigning in the cyberspace, with huge technological corporations controlling our data, and re-intermediation and control are stronger than ever in the so-called "sharing" economy. The Internet is also fragmented by countries, with many states imposing heavy controls to information and communication services. The XXI century will witness the major clash between centralization and decentralization in human history. And the major struggle will be around the communication and feedback technologies that will intermediate and govern every…
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Taxonomy
TopicsPeer-to-Peer Network Technologies · Distributed systems and fault tolerance · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
