larlet-fr-david/david/stream/2018/04/13/index.md

title: Decentralization theory
lang: en

> *The learning-curve of any decentralization technology is inversely related to its adoption-rate.*
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> *Faced with the dilemma of running their own version versus using existing infrastructure, the user will always choose the latter for convenience.*
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> Expanding on the theory:
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> * When referring to adoption-rate of the technology, it is the actual managing of the servers to keep in mind
> * When referring to choosing existing infrastructure due to convenience, it is end-users we should keep in mind
> * Each sentence is its own separate theory, but they are related
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> <cite>*[Decentralization Dilemma](https://www.molus.org/blog/decentralization-dilemma/)* ([cache](/david/cache/a8d86f0b34a8503b982614019f6a78b1/))</cite>

I am thinking a lot about [convenience](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html) ([cache](/david/cache/f1701e80d54a5ff895f50690a2d3fb94/)) these days and all the implications and intrications it drives, I will probably write a whole article about that given how fondamental it is in our society. Centralization is required to achieve convenience which has an incidence on everything.

*[Réponse de Karl](http://www.la-grange.net/2018/04/19/centralisation) ([cache](/david/cache/16510b73d5aae5c1abb065936a0eaa0d/)) et [article promis](/david/blog/2018/commodite-effondrement/).*