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I've thought about this on and off for a long time. Urbit, Solid, Mastodon (anything ActivityPub), SecureScuttleButt, Matrix servers, etc. The biggest problem

I've thought about this on and off for a long time. Urbit, Solid, Mastodon (anything ActivityPub), SecureScuttleButt, Matrix servers, etc. The biggest problem as I see it is cost. While I might want to have this for $60/year (or own my own hardware for a little more), the vast majority of people (whose adoption you need), don't want to pay for this. There are countless other UX and technical challenges, all interesting and largely tractable. But I'm not sure how to deal with the cost problem. It underlies the failure of essentially all anti-centralization efforts.

anchpop 7y ago
One of the main devs from SecureScuttleButt is working on something called Unwalled Garden [0] which is very similar to this but decentralized (you can host your site from your home computer and other people can seed it so it's still available when your computer is turned off). If you have a few friends who will seed your page for you out of the goodness of their hearts, I imagine your site will have pretty good uptime without anyone having to buy a VPS. [0]: https://unwalled.garden/ https://unwalled.garden/
NetOpWibby 7y ago
Cost is definitely the primary blocker. Everyone wants free but "free" costs more than money. It's quite the pickle.