ensuring decentralization (was Re: [unhosted] Re: Join the first Unhosted App Store)

[Michiel de Jong]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Timon Reinhard <timonr...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Michiel,

thank you for taking the time discussing this. Your reply helped me to better understand what Unhosted is about and in which direction it is moving. While still having a lot of questions, I'm going back to lurk-mode for now. I feel I have to start digging deeper into unhosted's technology and code before talking about it :-)

no, please talk. :) if you feel that way, then we didn't explain it correctly. also, there is not a lot of documentation to dig into except for https://github.com/unhosted/unhosted/wiki/happy-birthday everything else is best discussed live, i think, because it's so much in flux, that it's not a discussion about pre-existing content, but the discussion itself is the content.

About the centralization issue you brought up, there's another point that maybe i should have stated more clearly: our goal as a project is, and will be, to define an open standard. Our goal is not to create one app store, somewhere on the web. Or to be one option out of twelve when people choose a backend for their app. Our goal is to make all storage providers offer compatible storage, and to help all app developers require compatible storage. That's the idea of a standard. That everybody on both sides uses it. That way, we will never be more centralized than the web itself. We want to be an adjective, not a noun. So not 'unhosted instead of CouchDb', but 'unhosted use of CouchDb', etcetera.

What do you think?

Cheers,

Michiel