Sarah Friend
@isthisanart
questions for and about decentralized alternatives to big tech originally wrote this in early 2024 for a book chapter but publication has been indefinitely stalled, so dropping it on the blog https://blog.isthisa.com/decentralization-and-its-discontents/
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Sophia Indrajaal
@sophia-indrajaal
Great read, and thorough exploration of the concept. I did a deep dive on Quakers/Society of Friends recently, and realized they have Decentralization built in as a core tenet/structure and have been doing this somewhat successfully for something like 375 years and have been resilient against attacks from States, other religions. Etc. They have decentralization of leadership, although they certainly have influential figures. They have a sort of belief in distributed divinity, bit no real dogma. They have had at times some rules that could get you kicked out. The approach to decentralization has changed and evolved over that time but it still remains an ideal to be achieved rather than a proscribed approach to follow.
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Sarah Friend
@isthisanart
wow I didn't know this about the Quakers, but that's extremely interesting - will have to read more about it! Have always felt a bit connected to them because of the name (Friend) haha
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