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The problem with the “decentralized web” that everyone dreams of is that there is no way for it to truly work. Either everyone has a home/office server for eve
by THENATHE 4y ago
The problem with the “decentralized web” that everyone dreams of is that there is no way for it to truly work.
Either everyone has a home/office server for everything and then a company makes routers that “automatically” set up a DMZ and firewall rules and whatever, OR
Everything is just on a conglomeration of smaller hosts, which is still not ideal because that means each user pays higher prices and gets less performance, lower bandwidth, higher latency, etc because of the lack of hardware scalability with mom-and-pop server hosts.
Some level of single player (or few large players) is necessary for the modern internet.
- nine_k 4y agoI don't think that decentralized web is about not depending on cloud providers. I think it's mostly about having many independently controlled web sites,, as opposed to most content living in a few corporate silos with their own rules of access control, like FB, IG, Youtube, Twitter. Physically a large chunk of decentralized web could live on one huge server, and still remain acceptably decentralized. OTOH if every home had a separate p2p-networked appliance from Google or Meta, but Google's lawyers and Meta's algorithms running on each node decided what you see on your newsfeed, and what is downplayed or taken down, it would still be centralized, as it is now.