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And how many of those billions of people are using Internet in read-only mode, not creating any content? Don't know the percentages, but clearly it's a big majo
by ivanhoe 5y ago
And how many of those billions of people are using Internet in read-only mode, not creating any content? Don't know the percentages, but clearly it's a big majority, and that majority doesn't really need any servers on their own, there's no enough incentive for them in it.
But as views on the importance of privacy change, perhaps that will change too? Perhaps people will want an extra layer of protection, if it can be made easily available and convenient enough to them? Any modern phone's hardware right now could easily run a number of service nodes in some distributed network, if there was such a thing and if their use could be made fairly transparent to ordinary users.
- darth_avocado 5y agoRight, but then what’s the selling point of a “decentralized internet” if like you said, most people have no incentive to have servers of their own. Decentralized internet is what is being sold in web3.
- ivanhoe 5y agoImproved privacy and better control over owning your own content. Both of these things, of course, are currently looking completely irrelevant to like 99.9% of people online, but as the surveillance increases exponentially this might change. Or not, we'll see.
- giantrobot 5y ago> Improved privacy and better control over owning your own content. Ah yes, the increased privacy of an immutable public ledger of transactions shared globally. Much privacy, such control.
- ivanhoe 5y agoDid I mention crypto once? I'm talking about stuff like mastodon and scuttlebutt...
- ummonk 5y agoIf they’re using messaging apps, which most internet users are, they’re creating content.
- hk__2 5y ago> And how many of those billions of people are using Internet in read-only mode, not creating any content? Don't know the percentages, but clearly it's a big majority I wouldn’t be so sure. Each day there are 4.5 billion items shared on FB (including 350 millions new pictures) and 500 millions new tweets.