protocols

You get to hack network and/or security protocols, innards of mobile operating systems and build a global distributed system around brand new protocols.

It is easier to add features to centralized architectures, but it does not mean the death of distributed protocols.

Eventually all the decentralised protocols that were born in the early days of the internet will be gone.

Extended-random was proposed as a way to allow DoD to deploy TLS on its networks, rather than using custom crypto protocols.

You cannot wipe out spam without losing the decentralization element built into current protocols.

I'm not aware of any protocols that fit the storage+identity+sharing triad I mentioned above (except the one I'm working on).

It would be important that a person's personal platform was entirely under their control and only interacted with the outside world through approved protocols.

It makes me sad that federated protocols are on their way out.

Would you say they fix its core problems vs other protocols?

To decentralize something, you need the right software and protocols.

Last time I already tried to prove PHP can do anything when it comes to network protocols by implementing a DNS server.

You will need to be experienced building systems with complex business logic (there's a surprising amount) and working with integrating third party protocols, APIs and file formats[1].

* Protocols: Each protocol has costs and benefits for the API developers and for the consumers.