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22 sats \ 3 replies \ @didiplaywell 1 Jul 2024 \ on: Has the end of X approached? oracle
X looks alive and well. Being a social network, there's so many degrees of freedom that they should really mess up to fall down. There's always room for centralized services, the greatest value of decentralized services being to make their centralization optional, instead of unavoidable, thus disciplining the market. X will find its way.
Perhaps it will find its way temporarily, but I believe centralized networks are like dominoes—if one falls, they all fall quickly. We don't know; maybe the beginning will come from elsewhere. In my opinion, freedom comes with a price; we have suffered and continue to suffer from these networks in terms of freedom of expression. Decentralization is the solution, dear.
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We all agree on the value and importance of decentralization, that's out of question. I'm just arguing that it will not kill centralized services. The description you make of them falling as dominoes do not reflect on historical examples of which there are many, netscape being the most blatant: it's like if google, the mother of web centralized services, was to disappear today without anything but one sole centralized competitor (which should fall too immediately after by your theory). Following your theory it should have been a world-ending scenario, and reality wasn't remotely close to that.
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I believe what awaits centralized networks will be extremely shocking, especially considering the vast amount of data held by owners of these networks, particularly concerning privacy. We won't have to wait long to see scandals popping up here and there. In my view, something is quietly brewing in parallel with ongoing struggles and wars in the world, and I don't think the decline will be gradual but rather catastrophic.
You can call it a 'theory,' but I strongly believe in it.
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