https://www.wired.com/story/how-blockchain-can-wrest-the-internet-from-corporations
The #encryptionists are trying to push there flagging project over the healthy #openweb reboot.
Q. need a new hashtag? Lovers of blockchain (bloccatenaphile?) are a breed unto themselves, and not likely to be as sensible as some those who are in to encryption.
How broad is your definition of #encryptionist?
A. #encryptionists my “fuckyou” thoughts started with the #indymedia network. The #geekproblem installed a self-signed certificate on the domain to increase “privacy” alongside not logging IP addresses on the local server.
The “good affect” only security theatre, the bad effect, every user received a browser pop up saying “do not trust this site” and the IP addresses could just be collected “upriver” at the ISP/switch level by the state actors who were monitoring the project
The effect of not logging IP address locally was a rising deluge of spam and moderator burn out.
The was not democratic process on these changes, and no way to roll them back or even address the issue. The project of over 100 global news sites, with thousands of media creators and millions of users. Ossified and then died, the #dotcons soon replaced it.
#Fashionistas moved on, the #openweb started to die.
The #geekproblem pushing #encryptionists agenders OVER #openweb projects.
There is a role for #encryptionists /closed, but it’s on balance a smaller one than “open” is my core experience over the last 20 years.
All tech is “ideology” as code, we need to talk about this #4opens
