alt Hacker NewsClearly you have a vested interest in the status quo of today, instead of understanding why the whole network was created in the first place.
Your viewpoint enables billions of dollars of fraud every year, worldwide. Mine doesn't.
Email has similarly been destroyed by HTML email, at least partially.
It's like there is a coordinated effort to destroy every single legacy protocol and replace it with something centrally controlled. No fucking thank you.
"The whole network was created in the first place" to serve the needs of a tiny number of academic and military researchers. This legacy is completely irrelevant to why it exists today. Again, we can kill Web1 if it makes you happy, so we can get rid of your tired appeal to "but the 1970s design!!!". If we kill it, then people will just create some new network that serves the actual use cases of billions of people, because there will still be demand for software that does more useful things than sharing documents. And when that new network is created, it will be exactly the same as the current one, but it will have been made in the 2020s, so you can finally STFU about the 1970s. Would engaging in that farce make you happier?
> Your viewpoint enables billions of dollars of fraud every year, worldwide.
Yep. Having knives in every kitchen enables people to be stabbed, too. As a society we choose to allow useful things to exist rather than locking everyone in a straitjacket, even though the latter would be more safe and prevent all kinds of crime and tragedy. It's funny that you complain about centralizing control at the same time as making this argument that nobody should have tools because tools can be misused.