> Adoption of a decentralized web cannot play by the old rules. New experiences and interactions that are outside of current norms needs to appeal to individual values, that enable trust and ease of adoption. Pulling users away from convention is not an easy task.
They seem to suggest Decentralization is at odds with "conventional" consumer experiences.
It doesn't have to be that way.
For instance:
- D.Tube (decentralized YouTube)
- notabug.io (P2P Reddit)
Both look, feel, and act very much like their "conventional" versions. Yet both of these are fully decentralized using GUN (my project: https://github.com/amark/gun ). Most users would not even know there is a difference.
So it is certainly possible to both appeal to the masses/convention, while being private/secure and free/open-source and decentralized.
Although I do think we do need NEW and DIFFERENT experiences, things that are "fresh" and fun. Facebook basically looks corporate now. We need to build new UI/UX experiences that define a new "era" of the web, in the same way people look back and remember the 80s or 90s. This doesn't have to be something we look back to, it is something we can engineer from the start. :)