Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks - Varun Srinivasan

A design pattern to reduce centralized control and change incentives in social networks.

Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks - Varun Srinivasan Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks Every year, centralized social networks place more restrictions on what users and developers can do. They seem to believe that limiting choices is the path to a healthy network, while the opposite is probably true. A decentralized social network can challenge this hypothesis by making two powerful promises that centralized networks cannot. They can guarantee that users own a direct relationship with their audience and that developers can always build apps on the network. Centraliz

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