Radical Networks

This was a really interesting event held in Berlin in October last year, on various topics in communications and society. This talk is on decentralised social networking and communications which deals with the issues of communicating "awkward" content.

At 19 mins 52 secs "Can we decentralise the building of decentralised networks?" I thought we could, and I tried to explain how to do it here. That was over four years ago, and I don't know whether it worked for anyone. It didn't work for me, because I don't have anybody to talk to. Here's my comment on that video:

On decentralizing the decentralisation process, I tried to describe how to do this, which I thought would be the same as actually doing it, about four years ago. The central idea is to set up tiny networks all over the place, and then try to streamline the process of establishing the intersections. So you start out with isolated "atomic" networks, all independent, and you build up a more complex structure as you connect those previously isolated networks together. And "connect" can mean different things, depending on the particular intersection you are building. For example, two independent social media systems, A and B, say, could have a common intersection, and each of those could have a common intersection with a third and fourth, C and D, which could have their intersection implemented as a gateway going through A and B, and using that as a base for defining a direct intersection between C and D, not involving A and B at all. Then that could be used as a gateway to connect another independent network, E, say, to A and B via C or D.