Perhaps there’s a silver lining to the Twitter debacle.

Many orders of magnitude more people now deeply grok the fragility of centralized web services.

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1593346140245835784?s=46&t=cCCYdL6OpD-TA845adv_RQ

Designer, among other things. Learning backend dev. @astralwave on the bird app

“Twitter cannot afford to lose that many devs and keep operating.” 

Makes you wonder why Twitter’s software needs constant human interference from so many people to keep running.

Many people will now get a first taste of the two competing ideologies of decentralized web technologies: 

federated web based on the trust of independent server operators

decentralized web secured by some cryptographic protocol that incentivizes uptime and consistency

More people I know on Twitter have joined Farcaster & the Fediverse in the past month than in any other preceding month.

Both federated & crypto protocols have their downsides, and hopefully more people using these competing approaches at a larger scale leads to the discovery of many more ways to decentralize that might be workable.

A way out of fragility, perhaps, lies in our future.