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A visual guide to decentralization | New_ Public Magazine
This effort can be divided into two main fronts: Decentralized Utility and Decentralized Ownership.
Dror Poleg • Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization
Decentralized organizations enable work to be distributed to the community members instead of being entirely driven by top-down decision making hierarchies. While tokens financially align participants to contribute value to such a network, it is grassroots community leadership and ownership that enables the long-term success of a token network.
Peter Yuan Pan • How to grow decentralized communities
Futures of polycentrism , beyond either atomized decentralization or top-down centralization, where collective self-determination is protected through overlapping rights and responsibilities, abundant digital public infrastructure, and mechanisms for accountable governance.
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
Most of the people who talk about user ownership of networks are focused on creating new city-states based on blockchain technology and egalitarian ideals, but comparatively little attention has been paid to reforming existing networks based on these same principles. I think this is a mistake.
every.to • Twitter as a City-State
The idea of a decentralized organization takes the same concept of an organization, and decentralizes it. Instead of a hierarchical structure managed by a set of humans interacting in person and controlling property via the legal system, a decentralized organization involves a set of humans interacting with each other according to a protocol specif... See more
blog.ethereum.org • DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide | Ethereum Foundation Blog
“Instead of a hierarchical structure managed by a set of humans interacting in person and controlling property via the legal system, a decentralized organization involves a set of humans interacting with each other according to a protocol specified in code, and enforced on the blockchain,” Buterin wrote in 2014.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
-Many projects start centralized and then try to decentralize over time for yearn finance they started very decentralized. Need to be aware of "shadow networks" that develop with an organization, it doesn't mean there is a conspiracy but a natural psychological tendency to form networks.