Tech policy professor at @CSAalto and @oiioxford. How economics and geopolitics shape the global geography of cloud and AI. Digital Economic Security Lab DIESL.
Oct 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Now that Musk is running Twitter, people are looking for alternatives. Unfortunately federated (decentralized) networks like Mastodon seem unlikely to be the answer. This thread illustrates some of the basic problems: cost, collective action problems, fragmentation. Also…
…some of these issues with Mastodon—like hobbyist admins spying on you, username collisions, account discovery/portability—can probably be addressed with tech. But some, like reaching consensus on moderation so as to prevent network from constant splitting, are more fundamental.
Aug 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Blockchain doesn't solve the real problem. 2. Blockchain doesn't really solve the imagined problem either. 3. Blockchain creates a bunch of new problems. 4. Successful blockchain solutions don't actually use blockchain. thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain…
Of course, all of this has been said many times before. Why does the blockchain hype nevertheless persist in government agencies, large firms, universities, and other institutions? This is an interesting sociological question -- the answer to which could save us lots of €€€.
