Gregory's Server@danhon Kinda funny how many pro-atproto explainers I've seen feel the need to continually reiterate: "don't worry, it's not what it looks like."
Almost as though it's exactly what it looks like, but saying so woulda been bad for adoption.
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@danhon For me, it's not just the word "distributed." It's also that Dorsey is a big crypto booster, and Graber's background is in blockchain engineering, and the protocol is built on a lot of overlapping and compatible features, and designed for extension into other App Views. They've been pretty insistent on not calling it a blockchain or cryptocurrency technology, but I wouldn't bet money on it staying that way.   @darius @lritter @lrhodes @danhon imho at protocol has nothing to do with dat/hypercore at all and never had. paul pfrazee also never designed or built anything in the dat stack. all pfrazee did was using the dat stack to build a browser woth mang features on top and then abandoned it because he got a lot of pressure from his conservative family to earn money. dat stack continued before during and after him. you can now even stage and release apps via dat stack. |
@lrhodes Iโm sympathetic, though. Like, sure, you can imagine uses for distributed ledgers where you can't trust people*, but it's more like "cryptocurrency was so incredibly toxic and great at brandingโ that the association sticks just with the word "distributedโ.
* but there aren't many, and anyway, it's solving the wrong problem most of the time