[echelon]

Back in my day bittorrent was pretty popular.

We'd have doused Zuck's dorm room sever in gasoline if we'd known what was to happen.

[close04]

But that wasn't your own platform was it? It was explicitly distributed. The crux of my comment was the "own" part. You don't just have a share in it, it's yours.

[echelon]

The desire to own and control is what led us to where we are.

Let's go back to distributed. Let content proliferate according to novelty and interest gradients. Don't tax it. Don't rent seek.

There are ways to profit without ruining it for everybody else.

[close04]

The comment I was replying to clearly states "be their own platform" which is why I replied to it. What you're saying is a completely different conversation and the arguments don't dismiss what I said: the number of people who can successfully "be their own platform" is statistically insignificant so IPv6 is irrelevant for this purpose in particular.

I still don't understand how bittorrent (or any decentralized platform) is "your own platform". Most people will always just be part of someone else's platform. Whether it's YouTube, PeerTube, or friendica, it's never their own and IPv6 won't change that. And they explicitly sell themselves as distributed which by definition makes them shared, everybody's, or nobody's. They can never really be your own and that's exactly what their appeal is.

Most people are unable (due to skill, money, or effort constraints) to manage their own platform. And the ones who can don't need to wait for IPv6.