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What problem is this actually trying to solve? (I have theories, which we'll get into...) I know you don't mean this literally, but the web is already hugely decentralized, or at least the end points are. Individual services are not of course, but I host my website out of a NUC in my house. Any computer can be an accessible end point on the web so if the crusade is to 'decentralized the web', then we've already got that...except where we don't. The actual Internet-scale concern would not be the end points, but the infrastructure to those end points which a small number of companies control. Sure, fighting the man by not letting facebook sell your data is great, but if the idea is to preserve the Internet from major companies, then you'd have to start building out your own very expensive infrastructure. Even reducing this to just 'Well, Facebook and Google suck' still doesn't make this a strong selling point. Not everyone hosting an instance is going to be a competent network or system admin, and while yes, the network is decentralized, the individual instance certainly is not, and instead of giving your data to Facebook, you are giving it to some random dude, who probably has substantially shittier security around his infrastructure than a FAANG company might. So, what happens when random dude gets bored and just pulls the Instance down? Restart somewhere else? As far as I can tell, this is the kind of service that attracts the same kinds of people that sacrifice their first born to the altar of Bitcoin: The kinds of people who wear tinfoil hats, tend to be openly racist, and just want a place to share child porn, hoping they've found another way to dodge the police. Canine Blues Arooo fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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