Survival of the Fittest: Resilient Social Platforms
Over the past 24 hours, we witnessed our world experiencing stillness for the lesser part of a day. A major component of digital culture and communication provided by Facebook’s centralized services went down, leaving 2.89 billion monthly users normally reliant upon it powerless, without control over their content or digital lives.
If it was not loud before, it is evident now: we as a society require web3 to survive.
So why did it happen?
Ultimately, a single point of failure through a faulty network configuration cut off Facebook from the rest of the internet; they stopped showing their identifying flag in a vast ocean. CloudFlare did an excellent in-depth technical write-up describing the outage, but the notion of flipping a switch and rendering a third of humanity without normal technological means is a terrifying one.
The importance of resiliency.
In principle, resiliency implies systems or operations that have no single points of failure, can accommodate scaling to the n’th degree without ceasing to be available, and are readily accessible to those who need them at a moment’s notice. To give a visual example: when WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger went down, 6 hours of operations for a vast geographic majority of the world was disrupted. All dialogue of professional, educational, and personal nature ceased to exist.
In contrast, web3 is architected with resiliency in mind: peers validate and provide transparent applications/services for each other, as opposed to a black-boxed system managed by a select and secretive few. People can have full ownership of their digital lives through web3, without interference from any single point or entity. Imagine connecting to a hub of information that everyone collectively agrees upon existing, versus one served to you through a veil of obscurity; it makes no sense to entrust our culture, technology, and way of life to a single unilateral force. Rhetorically: why should a forest rely on a single root system to survive?
Planning for a better future.
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Business-wise: Developing conversations with arts/tech stakeholders throughout the U.S. (incl. curated art museums, boards, and arts/tech education departments).
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