happyborg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@terjefjelde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>terjefjelde</span></a></span> the main reason IMO is that it's hard, and by its nature is not getting the development money that centralising models can attract from VCs etc al.</p><p>However, things are coming together IMO. Several <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/p2p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>p2p</span></a> projects are coming to fruition, and one of the good impacts of the crypto sphere has been a source of money to support some of this work (cf. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/libp2p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libp2p</span></a>). </p><p>I've been following one, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SafeNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SafeNetwork</span></a> for a decade which is close to launching with unique promise (no Blockchain).</p>