[ExI] see you on Retroshare

[Adrian Tymes]

On Jul 10, 2013 10:42 AM, "Anders Sandberg" <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
> So I suspect it is uphill for most crypto-communities even when people
see their point. But it is not a guaranteed failure, and having a few
alternatives around is useful and might even force market leaders to be
honest to some extent (consider how linux as an alternative affected Apple
and Microsoft).

A fair point, but note that Linux - and Unix in general - had seen
significant use despite the Macintosh and Windows OSes before, e.g., Apple
came up with the Unix-based OS X.  More importantly, note that the very
existence of Linux was not hidden.  Even a crypto-community can be
advertised.

A good example might be the 4chan Anonymous community: in the public
consciousness to some degree, accomplishing at least minimal change, and
not archived except for bits they want to archive.  Most members are, well,
anonymous and shielded even from FBI warrants by a deliberate lack of
tracking.  (At most, the admins could give out possibly-spoofed IP
addresses.)
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