For 2024 I hope we can talk less about decentralization...

For 2024 I hope we can talk less about decentralization and more about democratization.

Decentralization sounds nice, is sometimes the right approach but is also tech's version of "the market is gonna fix this". Way more interested in finding more robust ways of doing democracy on, with and to the platforms we inhabit.

Like 1 January at 15:06 | Open on tldr.nettime.org

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Konrad

@tante Decentralization creates way more governance issues than it ever can solve.

1 January at 15:14 | Open on fedi.neuwirth.priv.at

Karl Heinz Häsliprinz

@tante The big question is what "Democracy" even means in a programmable environment with few paper legacy dependencies.

1 January at 17:00 | Open on climatejustice.social

benni

@tante democracy needs decentrality. decentrality enables democracy. no need to put them against each other. the problems arise if you think you can have one without the other like with bitcoin or with centralist nation states.

1 January at 17:56 | Open on social.tchncs.de

Kneworldodor

@benni @tante decentralization reduces choke points. Independent reps serving their constituents is decentralization. Two corporations/parties fighting over the countries management contract, with reps serving the corp/party and it's donors/lobbyists/shadow management, is centralized. One is democratic the other is corporatist/authoritarian in a democratic costume. In one the citizen is a person.

1 January at 18:10 | Open on mastodon.social

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