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Time to take the first step to a decentralized society. See u on a decentralized forum...

Thread over.

What decentralized forum do you mean?

Nooooooo! Where can we find you?

That is the whole point of decentralization. You dont have to know everything. It is better if you don't really. Just pieces of information from which you can build greater image :)

never understood those who say bye to a forum, it's like saying by to the internet, you can't say bye lol

Is there any examples of a decentralized forum. Do you mean like one without any moderators or rules?

Lol, EPIC! We will miss u a lot! Thank you for everything! I am looking forward to find a decentralized forum!

Bye, Catalyst ;)

Decentralized community is too utopian. Good luck finding one.

How so?

It sounds like the complete opposite to me - total anarchy.

What kind of decentralization ? Please explain.

As for bitcointalk.org

There are 2 admin's (theymos and justmoon)
Domain is owned by Sirius
Forum and database is only accessible by theymos
Forum and database, both are hosted separately.
There are around 10-15 mods.
There are around 6-7 Forum Treasurers, 7 Community council members.

Maybe one could be built on a blockchain.

This forum seems about as libertarian and 'hands off' as forums get, but there's always going to be some moderation or mediation needed. Sometimes I don't think there's enough intervention on here but I also hold the view that people should be censored as little as possible.

Something like bitmessage is ofcource possible but with all that spam etc..I am wondering what will be the blockchain size because there will be 0 moderation and no one will be able to remove their post/topics.

What would be the size of a forum like this?

There are different levels of decentralization. It's not a question of luck to find a significantly more decentralised forum, it is a question ot time.

Inside RetroShare there's a somewhat active Bitcoin forum.

What's retroshare?

http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

Thanks.

It was a pleasure to meet you here.

I think he should've made this thread is 10,000th post. :P

A few years ago I tried this decentralized forum software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_%28Serverless_Portal_System%29
It was a bit annoying to use, because of the huge lag between updates, and how to find good portals

Thanks for the memories ... lol

Darknet will soon have decentralized "everything" using dark market.  Even servers like Silk Road will be decentralized.  Content will be distributed on users and vendors computers instead of a server.  This includes forums and others typical server platforms.  Amir Taaki is working on the project.

"DarkMarket is an open source marketplace technology which utilizes every user—both vendors and customers—to host product pages, messenger pages, and the market as a whole."


This article describes it fairly well.
http://www.dailydot.com/crime/dark-market-deep-web/

Time to innovate maybe, I guess the best way to go is p2p as the blockchain might not handle the amount of message and the way a forum works, I think there should be an open source for a p2p solution, but till then ^^ my home is obvious

maybe he just left back to irc?

Looks like he is creating his own forum. I have high hopes.

So we will not find you again. :(

Bye.
Thanks and good luck.

I don't think its possible.There have to be some central administration in the forum for management and finances.

Which forum are u talking about

Bye ready guy from the Internet, that I have never met before.

Have the best adventure, future hero.

Got curious with this thread. What will undergo decentralization?

Who do I need to have in my contact list?

Exactly..I'm tired of seeing all this "decentralization" crap. In one way or another, everything is "centralized", we have the laws of physics etc etc, aren't we forced to obey them?

A forum that isn't moderated is total anarchy and will fail/succumb to trolls and hackers and scammers.
OP is delusional.

oh no please don't go away. Bitcoin society will not deal with this!

Why can't we have a true democracy? Power to the people.
If trolls/hackers/scammers are a minority then a system can easily be set up to discourage them and even make it impractical. Don't let Hollywood movies fool you into thinking Anarchy = chaos. This simply isn't true. Methods such as rating systems, history filters, micropayments and voting committees will weed out the weak *bad* users and make it difficult for the ones that persist.

Regarding the 'everything is "centralized"' statement, that's not true. When everyone involved in the system has the ability to contribute equally to the system (in one way or another) this then creates a decentralised system, how again does that make it centralised? Over time, it would make sense that people will start to have more influence than others but that is natural selection and leadership. This is true decentralisation and democracy, when it is the choice of the people and not forced upon them.

Bye Bye  :(   :(

It would be difficult to find anything, either offline or online, that is truly decentralized. Even that group called Anonymous has leaders, or used to until they stumbled and got caught. If you don't moderate a forum, it descends into chaos and generally everybody who wants to not associate with trolls and scammers/spammers tend to abandon it, and then it never really recovers even when you start moderating it again -- which tends to make the trolls and the scammers/spammers mad at you when they can't hate on each other. Why not hang around?