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I believe in a decentralized web, but one that you don't need a data center to participate in; nor, a buy in to participate. As at the end if the day, that's w

I believe in a decentralized web, but one that you don't need a data center to participate in; nor, a buy in to participate. As at the end if the day, that's what the web was back in the day. And still is if you ignore the main stays. It's silly really, but it's more of a question as to what is possible with access to a boundless tape of computers. How do you organize and for what purpose.

jeroenhd 5y ago
The "original" web3 before the cryptocurrency scammers claimed the term was all about the decentralized web with protocols like IPFS backing them. With IPFS, someone needs to host the data (either yourself or some service you pay) but the more popular your data is, the more hosts will have it cached and the quicker and cheaper the content loads. Even now, after the surge of cryptocurrency gambling, products like NFTs often leverage IPFS to store data, since the blockchains themselves are absolutely useless for actually storing information and nobody wants their decentralized system to rely on someone else's server.