Centralized systems are criticized for making unilateral decisions about what people can see and not see within their privately controlled network. This leads to strong anti-censorship sentiment and desire for censorship free content where anyone can say anything. However, look no further than your spam folder for a glimpse of what a truly decentralized and censorship free content network could look like.
Read The Promise and Paradox of Decentralization by Byrne Hobart.
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- One reason why it would look like your spam folder (at least from the onset) is that decentralized systems are most attractive to outcasts of other systems.
- It’s not just content—crypto is the new forum for old scams.
- Web3 suffers from many examples like this.
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Unsubscribe Links Are a Sneaky Phishing Vector
Maybe you want to be nice. Maybe you don’t want to hurt another well-meaning business' email delivery because you know from experience how painful debugging deliverability issues can be. So you click the unsubscribe link or you click the unsubscribe button that Gmail handily derives from the email.