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> everyone has a fast enough connection Only if by 'everyone' you mean 'not everyone.' Broadband is far from universal. > The decentralized web is everyone ho
by nulbyte 7y ago
> everyone has a fast enough connection
Only if by 'everyone' you mean 'not everyone.' Broadband is far from universal.
> The decentralized web is everyone hosting their own webserver from home.
Only of by 'decentralized' you mean 'centralized.' The point of decentralization is that there isn't one and only one place (a 'center') at which you can find a given resource.
- superkuh 7y agoI self-hosted my website on 56k for years and it was fine. And no, the point point of decentralization is literally that. Decentralization. What you're talking about is business crap leaking into areas it shouldn't. Uptime, availability, CDNs. All completely unneeded. Might as well be making straw airplanes to go full cargo cult.
- nulbyte 7y ago> I self-hosted my website on 56k Some can barely afford a cheap prepaid phone to make occasional calls, let alone a landline to tie up 24/7. Even then, running a web server is not trivial for most of the general public, a dial-up or DSL line is unlikely to come with a static IP address, and if folks don't know how to run a webserver, they certainly don't know how to set up a hostname with dynamic DNS. > What you're talking about is business crap leaking into areas it shouldn't. Uptime, availability, CDNs. All completely unneeded. No. You're talking about that. My point was much more basic.
- superkuh 7y agoAnyone on 56k isn't going to be able to use tor or i2p or any of the other services any better. But unlike hosting from home those things all add overhead data use too. The majority of people in industrialized countries have a megabit or two. As for "My point was much more basic", it doesn't count if you edit your post. That's a real jerk move to do after someone has already responded.