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I wonder what Tim Berners-Lee would think about the framing that says Web3 is about being self-certifying. https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying
by grappler 4y ago
I wonder what Tim Berners-Lee would think about the framing that says Web3 is about being self-certifying.
https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77fd8d81 https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77f...
In the context of TBL's invention combining urls, hypertext, and http, this is about the authentication and authorization steps that ask, "who is making the request, and should they be sent the resource they requested?"
Lacking great peer-to-peer approaches to this, we've gotten certificate authorities and tech giants acting as identity providers. Web3 is about exploring more decentralized approaches here which may, but by no means necessarily, involve blockchains.
- notfed 4y ago> Web 3.0 — User-generated content, user-generated authority. A model is emerging where people don’t have to host a server or create a user account in someone else’s database to create content. Make no mistake, people will have to host servers to serve the files. That's true with web2 or with this web3 definition. No way around that one. And if you host your file on a torrent, great, but there are fundamental pros and cons of torrents, namely with mutability. Not a panacea or the whole web would have switched to this model a decade ago.
- grappler 4y agoSeems like you want to quibble about some detail of the page I linked to rather than the point I was making. Sure, ok, I grant you your quibble.