The one thing that the "hash war" was good for is to remind us about the importance of not trusting centralized services to be honest and impartial. Just a few weeks ago we were all cheering Yours and Ryan as a great example of growing and vibrant BCH ecosystem.
Fast forward to today and Ryan flipped to acting like a tin-pot dictator tyrant:
Not only that, but if any other ABC cult members post to Yours I will ban them too. And delete their content.
If this doesn't demonstrate the danger of centralized publishing platforms, I don't know what would.
As was pointed out in another thread, we should use and support ONLY open-source and decentralized applications. Anything else is bound to disappoint and embarrass us in the long term as their owners are going to go berserk sooner or later - just look at Youtube, Twitter, Facebook etc. etc. ALL are going that path.
It is also extremely dangerous to BCH itself, imagine r/btc would get shut down, or /u/MemoryDealers banned and replaced by an SV puppet with some shenanigans, all quite possible on a centralized platform - BCH could quite likely lose the "hash war" if the community was attacked and censored in this way, just like happened with BTC. Uncensored communication platforms are necessary for the security of the coin just as well as hash, we learned this the hard way.
That's why I created a BitcoinCash community on a decentralized "reddit" called Aether and made a post about it, it was seen by ~4k people, do you know how many subbed? 8!
I mean, I know Aether is initial release but it's disappointing to see all the talk about how needed decentralized platforms are, which I believe we all agree with, however when an opportunity presents itself to actually use such a platform, almost nobody takes it. Why is this?
With only 90 members, we could be the largest community there and have a significant say in the future development to add BCH specific features, heck since it's open-source anybody can code anything and make a pull request. We could have our own "backup plan" if, or rather, when reddit does something shady.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9ygprt/the_hash_war_exposed_the_dangers_of_centralized/
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