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What a surprise: developers getting screwed by big centralized companies. Nowadays wasting time and money building anything on the shoulder of another company i
by jonmaim 8y ago
What a surprise: developers getting screwed by big centralized companies. Nowadays wasting time and money building anything on the shoulder of another company is crazy. It's not if but when are you getting screwed: Twitter, Facebook, Apple, this is history repeating itself plenty fold.
I'm just surprised nobody mentioned any decentralised, blockchain-based platform where spending time and money building on it is just worth it for the future.
Have a look at the Steem blockchain: social network like publishing and commenting are free and even rewarded with crypto-currency payouts. And as a developer it is very elegant to develop on it.
- phoe-krk 8y ago> I'm just surprised nobody mentioned any decentralised, blockchain-based platform What about decentaralized platforms that are not blockchain-based? The Fediverse (a part of which is write.as) achieves this goal of being decentralized without using any kind of blockchain technology.
- jonmaim 8y agoThanks for mentioning the Fediverse. Who is paying for server costs?
- phoe-krk 8y agoThe owner of each instance pays the costs for hosting a given instance. So, basically, domain + hosting. Note that these costs can be really low; Pleroma[0] can be run on a Raspberry Pi 3 or a $2.50 Vultr instance[1] [0] https://pleroma.social/ https://pleroma.social/ [1] https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/ https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/
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- kaolti 8y agoAgreed, glad to see Steem get some love on here.