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Gah! While reading the article I followed links and secondary links, and searched, and I now have 18 resulting tabs open. The last one is this: https://en.wik

by a3n 7y ago

Gah! While reading the article I followed links and secondary links, and searched, and I now have 18 resulting tabs open. The last one is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=decentralized%20web&go=Go&ns0=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=decentra... and the first link on that search result page is to TBL's Solid project, which seems to be Yet Another DWeb effort. Should I think of this, and other Dwebs, as an eventual global replace for FBook et al? Or is/will it be more like superpowered personal web pages? And will my aunt have to run her own ... node?

brisky 7y ago
Author here. I would like to address some of your questions: 1) The web is decentralized by design - we only need to 'upgrade it' 2) We need to create tools that empower people to leverage decentralized capabilities of the web (so that there would be no need for aunt to run the node) 3) I imagine we should not think about DWeb as some sort of FB replacement but more of an ecosystem where people feel that they have a choice and don't need to give away their content to facebook and other centralized platforms. It is not clear how this has to be implemented but I feel that some more privacy oriented and data-ownership oriented platforms will emerge in the next five years.
- a3n 7y ago
  > It is not clear how this has to be implemented but I feel that some more privacy oriented and data-ownership oriented platforms will emerge in the next five years. Thanks. I look forward to opening another 18 tabs in five years. :)