Moxie Marlinspike on the Challenges of Decentralized Systems

Cited in decentralization and federation debates as the key talk on the practical challenges, though some found it defeatist.

Moxie Marlinspike's 36C3 talk examines why distributed and decentralized technology is hard to build into consumer products, from the perspective of developing Signal. It argues that ecosystems move slowly and federation causes problems.