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Zugal: Lack of open-source incentives drives centralization by large tech firms
“Yeah, the irony behind open source is it's supposed to be this big decentralized thing where everyone can democratically participate, but because the incentives aren't nicely tied to the contributions people make, all of the funding ends up coming from massive…”
Zugal: ConsenSys is virtually the only entity building Solidity developer tools
“When I, as I write Solidity smart contracts, like, the developer ecosystem is just not there at all. Like, now there's a few exceptions. Like, ConsenSys has built A lot of good tooling. But besides consensus, like, basically no one's building tools.”
Devon Zuegel: Misaligned open-source incentives cause corporate centralization
“The irony behind open source is it's supposed to be this big decentralized thing where everyone can democratically participate, but because the incentives aren't nicely tied to the contributions people make, all of the funding ends up coming from massive compa…”
Devon Zuegel: ConsenSys is almost alone in building Solidity developer tools
“Like, whenever, as I write Solidity Smart Contracts, like, the developer ecosystem is just not there at all. Like, now there's a few exceptions. Like, ConsenSys has built a lot of good tooling but besides ConsenSys, like, Basically, no one's building tools.”
Zuegel: LinkedIn API shutdown destroyed businesses built on its data
“When LinkedIn shut down that service, just lots of businesses literally went out of business. They could not function anymore because they were based on that.”
Zuegel: OAuth is centralized, janky, and limited by tech monopolies
“OAuth as a tool that people can use as you're building a little side project. You don't want to have to build a whole complicated login system. You plug in OAuth. This is a huge step forward, but it is not really sufficient for everything. It's Centralized. It…”
Zuegel: LinkedIn API shutdown forced dependent third-party businesses to close
“When LinkedIn shut down that service, just lots of businesses literally went out of business. They could not function anymore because they were based on that.”
Zuegel: Web2 OAuth restricts developers through centralized platform gatekeeping
“And it doesn't give you all the information that you could possibly want because it's dependent on Google and Facebook and Twitter and so on, ah, to give you the information that they're willing to give, which is pretty limited.”
Devon Zuegel: Crypto governance experiments could improve real-world election systems
“If we can experiment with the ways we elect leaders or vote on different proposals within smaller communities, perhaps those lessons can, like, bubble up to the real world as well.”
Zuegel: Crypto networks allow platforms to internalize third-party developer value
“If it were a crypto network, they'd be able to capture it.”