# kaal:claim:3782217-027

**Claim.** Existing decentralized news efforts including WikiNews, the Decentralized News Network, and Steemit failed to gain wide adoption because they lacked ambition; the goal should instead be to empower individuals with greater ability to communicate and cooperate.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- decentralized news projects to date

**Source quote.**

> All of these examples appear to us to have failed to gain wide adoption due to a lack of ambition. The goal should be to empower individuals with greater ability to communi- cate and cooperate.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of History In Decentralization* (2021), News and education, page 10

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `358779557d8e7dcd101720ca0fad90b9146d24f1c7c03909eb431fcf1fb7e103` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20The%20Importance%20of%20History%20In%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** insufficient-ambition  (family: cold-start-and-bootstrapping)

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** wikinews, steemit, adoption-failure, decentralized-news, ambition

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