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WordPress.org forcefully took over the directory listing of a plugin published by another company they are fighting with. This plugin has 1,232 reviews and 2mm installs.
Once any sort of app store, review site, or product catalog reaches a point critical mass and becomes the canonical source, you have a new central point of failure.
It's an interesting thought experiment. How does one decentralize something like a directory of plugins, where the value of the directory in question is that it's centralized?
While information wants to be free, humans like when it's all in one place, they don't want 100 different app stores. They want convenience.
Nostr has the primitives to build sites using a model of decentralized trust and reputation, but even then the people who build the most popular aggregators will yield the same power.
Once any sort of app store, review site, or product catalog reaches a point critical mass and becomes the canonical source, you have a new central point of failure.
It's an interesting thought experiment. How does one decentralize something like a directory of plugins, where the value of the directory in question is that it's centralized?
While information wants to be free, humans like when it's all in one place, they don't want 100 different app stores. They want convenience.
Nostr has the primitives to build sites using a model of decentralized trust and reputation, but even then the people who build the most popular aggregators will yield the same power.