[unicornporn]

Domain: decentralize.today. Published on: Medium.

Seriously, it isn't THAT hard to at least host your blog outside the centralized disservices. You could argue that reach is negatively affected. It probably is. But if everybody (and that includes the outlets promoting decentralization) just swallows the bait, how can things ever change? (Wo)man up!

[pjmlp]

Having been raised in a country enjoying the first winds of freedom after a dictatorship of 44 years, I wonder how serious this kind of blog posts are.

Sometimes they look just doing activism from the couch.

[maglavaitss]

Anything that raises a flag and makes people think and consider alternatives to FB, Google, printed money, etc, is good activism. Whether it's from the couch or the armchair, is irrelevant.

[pjc50]

FB, Google, printed money

One of these things is not like the others.

[iamdave]

I don't think their point was to make precise and completely congruent analogues of these three topics.

[pjc50]

It's more that I don't want sensible concerns about privacy in online services diluted by monetary theory that's at best "fringe".

[Hondor]

The article identifies the risk that printed money will disappear, replaced with a few large credit card companies and banks so the government can monitor everyone's use of money. Since we're clearly already heading in that direction bit by bit, I wouldn't call it a fringe theory.

[patrickaljord]

Yeah, one of these are being forced upon us by guns.

[GunboatDiplomat]

Printed money as opposed to what? Printed money is far better from a privacy standpoint than electronic money.

And no, bitcoin or similar is not going to be a realistic replacement.

Neither is money backed by gold or the element or compound of your choice.

[bogomipz]

What do you not find serious about it?. The author is sighting actual examples of behavior that they find concerning. Do you doubt the veracity of these examples? Also Why does it matter where activism is conducted from?

[natch]

Maybe they're not yet perfect, but kudos to them for at least decoupling services so they keep more flexibility to move anywhere.

[mastazi]

Maybe the author should give a look at https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ - there are a lot of decentralised blog engines around.

[nebulon]

You could also checkout https://cloudron.io we do try to make it a lot more user friendly and approachable to self-host your blog and lots of other app categories. I think once self-hosting such apps doesn't require much technical knowledge anymore, it removes a lot of friction for users.

[mastazi]

Yes I really like Cloudron, it's one of the best possible solutions to introduce less technical people to self hosting

[mSparks]

Its not even a real article. Just some mindless repetition of some braindead cia propoganda against foreign governments being used to promote a new crypto currency called shadowcash.

Yawn.