>spam captchas were designed to solve this (and only this, as opposed to requiring them to merely view content like modern ignorant web devs like to do [yes i

>spam captchas were designed to solve this (and only this, as opposed to requiring them to merely view content like modern ignorant web devs like to do [yes i know some web devs now require it to be able to make sure the people they're datamining are real, but this is a new practice from this year basically]) public services should be implemented by decentralized p2p. static content is solved by ipfs, freenet, etc. dynamic content perhaps can only be solved with smart contracts, which would be less bad than cloudflare if they weren't expensive, as they still provide protocol conformance (unlike cloudflare that requires you to have your packets look like a big 4 browser), anonymity (yeah, pseudonyms, you can still make one per query), etc. without smart contracts many interactive applications are still possible > The other alternatives all suck to the extent of my knowledge, they're either prohibitively convoluted, or web3 cryptocurrency micro-transaction nonsense that while sure it would work, also monetizes every single interaction in a way that is more dystopian than the actual skull-crushing robot apocalypse. centralized web hosting is and always was unsustainable and this is the reason most web content is commercial garbage, and the problem will only get worse. my concern was always what kind of garbage boomer protocol will become the new standard. i sure as hell dont want something that looks like email, web, or UN*X.