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It misses that Tim Berners-Lee and early internet architects perhaps were thinking of decentralised and also peer-to-peer in the same way that web3/crypto guys
by larodi 5y ago
It misses that Tim Berners-Lee and early internet architects perhaps were thinking of decentralised and also peer-to-peer in the same way that web3/crypto guys do. What TBL had no interest in was the container (DB or server, whatever). Some 20 years later Tor people got interested in the decentralised and redundant storage for HTML and IPfS for files. So this is kind of… already invented. But not anywhere near to mass adoption.
While I agree that FB, twitter and alike are just big content holders and providers, I cannot agree that vast majority (of users) even understand the implications or care to go decentralised and redundant (in respect to content).
So it seems the appeal of the so called web3 is still very weak. And btw It’s not even a web, really. It seems to me rather an extremely bloated approach to ‘torrenting’ assets. And extremely energy-pricey.