The decentralization of the internet should be increasingly important as we see government and corporate censorship increase. I couldn't care less about the money aspect, I look forward to decentralized apps replacing corporate controlled public spaces.
This is why I think it's so important that the internet begins moving towards decentralization soon.
Much of the censorship and top-down control we're witnessing today will only get worse while there's no bittorrent-like or blockchain-like decentralization.
Ciao macawfish absolutely :)
the only issue is: until we don't rework the existing low level standards and we build our own private physical network infrastructure (each user takes care of his own router and provide others with connectivity for free without intermediation of any third-party or service provider) we will not have a truly "decentralized" network.
Decrentralizing the web's software isn't good enough. We need to decentralize the hardware. Right now, connections to the web look like a tree, where a whole bunch of connections get funneled through an ISP. That ISP has the power. The power to throttle, the power to block, the power to record. And that ISP can be pressured by other powers. We need to decentralize so that instead of looking like a hierarchical tree, the internet looks like a graph. With each building forming a node that connects to its neighbors.
Of course, the amount of work it would take to build such a web and move to it likely rules out the possibility of it ever happening. I mean, how do we go about forming a movement to build this? It only works, really, if everyone's on board.
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