> I'm still a little skeptical of claims that existing web tech isn't decentralized enough. This is because it's not a technological problem. The path to an ac

> I'm still a little skeptical of claims that existing web tech isn't decentralized enough. This is because it's not a technological problem. The path to an actual decentralized web is clean technologically. We just need to take what already exists which is currently massively used in a centralized way, and build the services UI on top of it. Of course there are still crypto to add and so on, but if the investment where going that way it would come fast. The real problem is a business problem. Decentralized services don't pay unless there is something centralized. We cannot expect that (big) private companies will pay for something that's not in their interest. I've been running an open source company for 15 years. I've see so many times in the voice or in the eyes of entrepreneurs that they saw us as philanthropists. If we want de centralization, competition and control of our data and software we either or a combination of: - need individuals or comapnies to pay for it (pay your software provider + hosted fairly) - public funding - laws restriction the oligopoly approach - gdpr++++ - forcing standard based for big companies - forbidding centralization - forcing open-source Some are voluntary extreme and have little chance to ever happen.