"Jedním ze zásadních prvků v rámci ochrany dat bude decentralizace. Každý si tak bude moci zprovoznit a nastavit vlastní server, na kterém bude uchovávat svá data. "
"Openbook se tedy deklaruje jako decentralizovaný open source software, který bude dostupný pro miliardy lidí na celém světě."A při tom ve FAQ na Kickstarteru se píše hned u první otázky de facto pravý opak:
"Why is Openbook not decentralised?Long story short... Decentralised systems are incredibly complicated. For example rolling out updates (security updates/improvements included), maintaining cross-version compatibility (for example when rolling out a feature that is by design non-backwards compatible) and tracking, modifying or deleting user information across the nodes (pretty much impossible to guarantee).It is a mighty challenge by itself to develop a system that tackles all of these issues. It could take years of research and development.The software giants are growing at an incredible pace, crushing or buying any sign of competition. Initiatives for social media decentralization in all honesty and sadness, don't stand a chance.While decentralisation initiatives are focusing on building revolutionary technologies and ways to tackle the decentralisation system problems, the real users of such systems (people with a non-tech background) care little for that aspect of the product. They care about the experience, the features, the ease of use, the design. Once these initiatives solve the decentralisation challenges, they will be thousands of light years away from matching the features the software giants will then have. It would all have been for nothing.We are tackling the problem the other way around. We will use existing technologies to build not only a product that competes with the software giants but beats them in the aspects that the general public cares about.If we do manage to become the defacto social network (which at that point would already be a huge improvement over existing ones in regards to transparency, privacy and security), with that amount of users and public interest, we would then be able to afford the time and the best and brightest minds in tech to research decentralisation strategies.Imagine if we could invest millions in this! What a difference it would make."