by hnthrowaway0328 12 hours ago
I'm not sure how decentralization helps though. People in a bazzar are going to care even less about sharing shadow knowledge. Linux IMO succeeds not because of the bazaar but because of Linus.
Decentralization is resilience; that's why the internet even works at all. That was the entire point of it, in fact.
You don't keep a bazaar running with shadow knowledge. Either the important things are published or it doesn't run.
What is the shadow knowledge in this case?
Also curious, since the bazaar seems to be where one acquires shadow knowledge (grey market items, support structures for unregistered people etc.). See Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong for a practical example.