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Why save the web? Seems like a better future would be to do end-to-end encryption over a peer-to-peer network. Yes, in understand that it could be blocked in a
by V2hLe0ThslzRaV2 9y ago
Why save the web? Seems like a better future would be to do end-to-end encryption over a peer-to-peer network.
Yes, in understand that it could be blocked in a number of ways, but so could mesh networks too.
- pfraze 9y agoJust replace HTTP with the peer-to-peer network. You don't need to lose the whole platform.
- V2hLe0ThslzRaV2 9y agoEvery single thing you add increasing the bandwidth, overhead, surface space for security, code to maintain, etc. "Keep it simple, silly." So, being a decentralized web enthusiast (per your profile) what why focus on reproducing the whole web, to start, the web was just a simple layout, text, web links, and people links (mailto).
- pfraze 9y agoWe're not reproducing the Web, we're improving it. The Web is well-known by devs and users, has lots of tooling, and has all the features I'd want from a p2p applications platform. It just needs the p2p. The question to ask is, why would abandon something that is already so close to what we want?
- V2hLe0ThslzRaV2 9y ago"increasing the bandwidth, overhead, surface space for security, code to maintain, etc." Web is a massive set of code, much of which is built around are the things that are wrong with the web today; for example, any native support for "cookie" like tech for starters.