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1. meejah (meejah@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 21:45:47 UTC meejah

   • humanetech
   • Rysiekúr Memesson
   • Terry Hancock

   @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_

   • arnebab@rollenspiel.social's status on Wednesday, 12-Jan-2022 05:35:20 UTC ArneBab

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     • humanetech
     • Rysiekúr Memesson
     • Terry Hancock
     • meejah

     @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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