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I don't really get these flavor of article, the web is kind of the poster child of a decentralized application. saying the challenge of a decentralized web is k
by somat 4y ago
I don't really get these flavor of article, the web is kind of the poster child of a decentralized application. saying the challenge of a decentralized web is kind of like saying the challenge of water not being wet enough.
- nine_k 4y agoThe challenge here seems to be to resist the power law (pun semi-intended). It's not about water being too wet, it's about fish in the water being vastly different sizes, and a giant shark or two concentrating a biomass worth a million small fish. The "truly decentralized" web, under this angle would only contain small fish. But the very success of the web means that giants will emerge.
- jiggawatts 4y agoThey're arguing against "big water", and shouting that we should all have local wells. Well... umm... okay, if that makes sense. But it doesn't for most people most of the time. People as a rule like centralised services, because they can innovate and iterate faster. Centralised services have efficiencies of scale, round-the-clock support, and other perks that decentralised systems generally cannot afford to replicate many times over, at least once for each instance.
- whatisweb3 4y agothe idea of web3 isn’t that everybody runs their own server. It’s that everybody is using a shared source of truth - the blockchain - that is not centrally owned. So for that data, you are not locked into any platform even if you never self host, which most people don’t.
- qznc 4y agoI wonder how much overlap there is between the Web3 and the IndieWeb people. I think „not much“ even though both say „decentralized“ a lot.