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Tim, you made the web fundamentally client-server. Servers have urls, can be indexed, have centralising power. Clients do all the work: run the code, render the
by edejong 8y ago
Tim, you made the web fundamentally client-server. Servers have urls, can be indexed, have centralising power. Clients do all the work: run the code, render the page, be subservient. Clients do not have urls, cannot be indexed and cannot communicate among each other (gRPC excepted). Don't you agree this design has massive centralisation as a side-effect, and how can we fix the design?
- exhaze 8y agoHe's actually been working on solving that exact problem: https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-l...
- choko 8y agoIt's interesting that he is pushing the decentralization concept while at the same time decrying hate speech on the web. Wouldn't a non-centralized version of the web make it harder to police said speech? As a disclaimer, I am not advocating the policing of speech in any way and am against that concept.
- megous 8y agoYou wouldn't be able to control what people publish on their own devices, but for those people to be able to spread their (unwanted) content would be presumably harder.
- macintux 8y agoIt's not clear that he's decrying hate speech so much as decrying the amplification effect on it that the current state of the tech world enables.
- hobofan 8y ago> Wouldn't a non-centralized version of the web make it harder to police said speech? It might make it easier, by not connecting to those parts of the decentralized web where hate-speech is prevalent. Of course, this might then amplify echo-chambers.
- gagege 8y agoWith content addresses instead of location based IP addresses. https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://datproject.org/ https://datproject.org/ https://libp2p.io/ https://libp2p.io/