@TerryHancock @humanetech @rysiek It's absolutely easier to change protocols in a monopoly; there's no need to come to consensus with any other groups. Consensus is hard.
Still, further to Terry's point, I do agree that open protocols with a wider ecosystem are _better_
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arnebab@rollenspiel.social's status on Wednesday, 12-Jan-2022 05:35:20 UTC ArneBab @meejah @TerryHancock @humanetech @rysiek I remember how this worked with Gnutella — 4-5 main communities working with a shared protocol, scaling a O(N²) protocol to a well-scaling one.
When the biggest clients went in a block, a new client came around and pushed better features. That’s for example where swarming came from.
A shared protocol enables getting out of blocked development in some areas due to hard to change code paths in a single implementation.
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