Making the fediverse sustainable and generative requires economic settlements acting as incentives and disincentives. Imagine if email had cost a fraction of a cent to send; goodbye spam, goodbye phishing! Imagine if there was a defined benefit from larger networks that moved to IPv6 to get you to do the same. Economic settlements do this; although we need to learn from the mistakes of the telecom networks of old. Developed correctly they also can rebalance the geometric value captured at the core and top by a few with the more or less linear costs borne by the many at the bottom and edges of informational stacks. More on equilibrism here: https://bit.ly/2iLAHlG
This was very helpful in beginning to understand what decentralized social platforms can look like. Thanks Sam!
Making the fediverse sustainable and generative requires economic settlements acting as incentives and disincentives. Imagine if email had cost a fraction of a cent to send; goodbye spam, goodbye phishing! Imagine if there was a defined benefit from larger networks that moved to IPv6 to get you to do the same. Economic settlements do this; although we need to learn from the mistakes of the telecom networks of old. Developed correctly they also can rebalance the geometric value captured at the core and top by a few with the more or less linear costs borne by the many at the bottom and edges of informational stacks. More on equilibrism here: https://bit.ly/2iLAHlG