counter anti disintermediation

• a [[doctrine]]
  • [[against]] [[anti disintermediation]]
    • says that [[distributed systems]] and [[web 3]] are likely the best tools to counteract [[anti disintermediation]] as effected by profit-seeking centralizing entities
    • I would posit that the [[agora]] fits the doctrine: it is based on distributed concepts even if currently mostly implemented as server side; data integrate comes from repositories in user control; and is not profit seeking.
  • [[go]] http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediation pull
    • [[quote]] Users of e-mail and Usenet, the two most common platforms, did not generally operate their own servers on their own local computers, but were dependent on servers run by others. But servers require upkeep. Operators need to finance hosting and administration. As the Internet grew beyond its relatively small early base, Internet service came to be provided by capitalist corporations, rather than public institutions, small businesses, or universities. Open, decentralized services came to be replaced by private, centralized platforms. The profit interests of the platform financiers drove [[anti-disintermediation]].
    • [[quote]] End-to-End principle: platforms must not depend on servers and admins, even when cooperatively run, but must, to the greatest degree possible, run on the computers of the platform’s users.
  • [[web 3]] is a possible answer, being a set of tools to drive a serverless internet
    • [[decentralized web]]
    • [[ipfs]]?
    • [[hypercore]]?
    • [[fission]]?
  • [[neil]] https://social.coop/web/statuses/107071940849631302

Counter-anti-disintermediation

Tactics to avoid the centralisation of things that were once decentralised.

I think Github centralising the world's source code on the back of an entirely disintermediated tool is probably a good example of anti-disintermediation. By the use of lock-in and network effects.

The assumption here is:

• Disintermediation = good
• Anti-disintermediation = bad
• Counter-anti-disintermediation = a means to get back to good

Centralization is required to capture profit. Disintermediating platforms were ultimately reintermediated by way of capitalist investors dictating that communications systems be designed to capture profit.

– Exploitation and Rent-Seeking Models in Social Media and P2P Exchange Platforms

Going back to an early Internet architecture of cooperative, decentralized servers, as projects such as Diaspora, GNU Social, and others are attempting to do, will not work.[5] This is precisely the sort of architecture that anti-disintermediation was designed to defeat. Decentralized systems need to be designed to be counter-anti-disintermediationist.

– Exploitation and Rent-Seeking Models in Social Media and P2P Exchange Platforms

Central to the defeat of this particular peer-to-peer movement was that its infrastructure was vulnerable to [[weaponised design]], in which the network protocol directly empowers attackers through its design. For BitTorrent, this empowerment came as the protocol exposes every user’s participation in the network. This data was exploited to unmask users, ruin lives and provide justification for new legislation.

– [[This is Fine: Optimism and Emergency in the Decentralised Network]]

What to do

[[Dmytri Kleiner]] suggests that peer-to-peer is the way to go to counter anti-disintermediation. (i.e. [[No Servers! No Admins!]])

Central to the counter-anti-disintermediationist design is the End-to-End principle: platforms must not depend on servers and admins, even when cooperatively run, but must, to the greatest degree possible, run on the computers of the platform’s users. […] By keeping the computational capacity in the hands of the users, we prevent the communication platform from becoming capital, and we prevent the users from being instrumentalized as an audience commodity.

– Exploitation and Rent-Seeking Models in Social Media and P2P Exchange Platforms

Twin pages

• https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediation pull