0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DiracDelta 24 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: Can i ask why not decentralized uber app is mainstream yet meta
The funny thing is it is likely the commerce apps that are needed first! People forget that before social media, there was business on the internet!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthzar 24 Jul 2023
People forget that before social media, there was business on the internet!
I don't know how to put this, but you have history backwards. The US government explicitly banned commerce on the early internet (i.e. the '70s and '80s). In 1980, the first social media network was created: Usenet (see my essay for more details on the history of Usenet). Meaningful commerce didn't occur on the internet until the 90's when the general public got access to the internet.
In other words, because of state intervention, social media came before commerce on the internet.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiracDelta 24 Jul 2023
I mean the social media apps that really got traction that came after the dotcom boom.
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