The revealed-preference marginal value of privacy/security/data portability for median users is really really low. This might be the biggest blocker of protocol tech (I’m now using protocol instead of blockchain, crypto, web3, web5… it seems the most accurate category descriptor)

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

I wonder if protocol people all have an origin story where one of these values failed in a big/important way.

E.g., I got obsessed with data portability after I lost years of writing & art due to a bad backup.

But for most people existing centralized gardens work just well enough that they never get seriously burned.

Reluctant anti-utopian | Breaker of things | https://necopinus.xyz

I think I just got nerdsniped by late 90s multiagenct systems research. They’re fundamentally more interesting, expressive, and plain fun