Maybe kind of a biased question considering this is a decentralized web app, but if the world went communist, do you think the fediverse sites would be more commonly used or less? Would it exist at all? Why?
Are there fediverse instances hosted in China by the way? Just curious.
In a communist world people would have apps like Popcorn Time that utilised Peer to peer technology to share movies/tv shows
Removing the need for entire data centres of computers wasting energy because it’s based on file sharing technology
The entire web would look like decentralised applications like lemmy/mastodon/peertube and torrents
Instead private companies like Facebook/Twitter retain centralised data centres and sell your data for profit whilst providing backdoors for the US
Definitely, but ideally there would also be state-funded servers helping to seed the data / media, and run servers. The main thing that would kill the surveillance capitalist social media companies, would be lots of state-funded developers working in open source, beefing up the security and features of a few very well-maintained and self-hostable services.
Imagine state resources being thrown at an app like popcorn time… netflix would be dead within a year.
Yes they had to do the opposite…Throw state funded resources against PopCorn Time precisely because it was better than Netflix and provided much more content!
Instead the “Web” has become a walled garden of 5 websites and they’re currently recreating the horrific 900 channels on satellite via split up streaming services
i don’t think decentralization of web apps is somehow intrinsic to communism or any other political regime to any degree, but preventing corporate monopolies that wouldn’t exist in communism would in my opinion exponentially accelerate alternatives in various areas, decentralization included
I never heard of democratic decentralization.
