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RE: Synereo: The First True Social Computer?
Decentralizing everything in one platform sounds like a bad idea at the surface.
I believe the decentralized world will exist in different pieces. Sure, Steemit currently relies on centralized infrastructure, but soon all of that infrastrucutre will get decentralized in pieces (IPFS for web hosting, mesh networks for internet connectivity, etc).
why not indeed !! ; - )
That infrastructure has to get paid for. If you are using IPFS for web hosting then you'll have to buy their coin and pay their fees. Now you've got more developers to appeal to or appease who might or might not care what happens to your social network. From a social network perspective, you want your social network to provide as much resources for itself as it needs.
That is just how I'd do it. Especially since we don't know the price of storage and also considering people are going to sell the storage somehow, so why not generate it and sell it to others?
You'll need their coin to use the hosting service as a website (e.g. Steemit.com will need to, and the nodes on IPFS will be incentivized by the coin), but as a consumer you won't need the coin to access the site.
I could very well be wrong, but right now to me it seems more likely we'll see fragmented infrastructure rather than one infrastrucutre that all dapps run on.