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Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks
- This pattern raises a question: is centralization just a natural tendency of all networks? Are we destined to have a "decentralization sandwich," where there's a hard-to-change set of protocols, something open built on top of that, and a series of closed systems built on top of that, which are the only ones the average person interacts with?
from The Promise and Paradox of Decentralization by Byrne Hobart
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Why Decentralization Matters. We’ve forgotten there’s a better way to… | by Chris Dixon | OneZero
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- In fact, these types of networks may be good candidates for progressive decentralization, i.e. build a network the usual way first and introduce tokens for community ownership, governance, and/or rewards later.
from Bootstrapping Web3 Networks: The Limitations of Token Incentives by Sameer Singh
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