A long time ago, yeah. I think most projects start trying to solve all these problems, but then settle on one aspect of it. I don't think any project balances

A long time ago, yeah. I think most projects start trying to solve all these problems, but then settle on one aspect of it. I don't think any project balances all of them in any meaningful way, but if any were ever able to pull it off, they'd change the internet as we know it, forever. I wrote a paper back in 2010 about a proposal for having browsers handle private keys, and a decentralized social network could then store encrypted data, which would be decrypted at the browser level. But in order to maintain that kind of trust, it would have to be baked into the browser directly. A plugin wouldn't be trustworthy enough and wouldn't have the necessary install density, and client-side JS is out of the question. And then there's the UX question to how users handle private keys. Do you start to expect everyday users who just want to browse their social network to juggle private keys, move them across devices, etc. And what happens when a user wants to search the network? Even if it's possible, I can't think of a way that isn't extraordinarily slow. But that's one way you could handle encrypted data so that the servers involved don't have any idea what they're storing. Then you could split it into chunks and spread it all over the place. There's just so many moving parts, and all the projects working on it are underfunded and undermanned to solve just the single aspect they're focused on, which isn't even the whole package. I'm not saying it's impossible. It's just extraordinarily difficult.