[stunpix]

It’s no longer funny to see how developers again and again are trying to fix problems of real world by creating digital hideouts because this is the only thing developers do the best - programming. Whenever we see a problem with banks, governments, corporations, we immediately try to fix the problem with “own digital alternative”. But hiding from the real problem in a new network doesn’t fix remaining initial problem for the rest of the world. Complex socio-economic problems shall be fixed with socio-economical instruments. No new network could solve problems of monopolies and profit-greedy corporations.

[sanity]

It's a technical solution to a technical problem, that problem being the client-server architecture which inherently centralizes control and disempowers users.

The Internet started out peer-to-peer, but client-server became dominant during the 90s when the Internet became mainstream - because at the time it was the only option for building services that scaled.

Freenet provides an alternative to the client-server architecture that doesn't require compromising on user experience or scalability.

[x-complexity]

> Complex socio-economic problems shall be fixed with socio-economical instruments.

Missing the forest for the trees.

The socio-economic problems are caused by the limitations & drawbacks of modern tech: It's too easy to centralize control over a platform, whilst keeping things decentralized requires an upfront desire to do so, along with the nightmare that is backwards compatibility.

> No new network could solve problems of monopolies and profit-greedy corporations.

It is a solvable problem. Monopolies & rent-seeking behaviors happen because the tech involved has chokepoints that favor centralized entities.

We know the business processes that should happen for running service X, based on our daily interactions with them and the idealized form of how they should work. Breaking the processes down into components & putting them onto a decentralized compute platform would significantly relax their control over common chokepoints. Dispute processes would be made as public as current government processes, ideally Estonian-like.

[deely3]

> The socio-economic problems are caused by the limitations & drawbacks of modern tech...

Could you please provide some examples?

[lioeters]

Society and governance are gradually getting transformed and integrated into a global communication network run by software and hardware. The Earth is becoming a giant computer within which we live.

It's too early to declare that complex socio-economic problems cannot be solved by a new network/infrastructure/etc. Software is one of the "socio-economical instruments" and we shouldn't dismiss its potential for social transformation beyond the control of banks, governments, corporations.