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I think we could support decentralized protocols like IPFS or Freenet 2.0 at the browser level. Or even perhaps build in some type of UDP that could be easily e
by ilaksh 3y ago
I think we could support decentralized protocols like IPFS or Freenet 2.0 at the browser level. Or even perhaps build in some type of UDP that could be easily enabled or a separate download.
I assume these ideas are blocked partly because companies like Google that have influence over browser features very much do not want a decentralized web.
Tying web pages to specific servers is also maybe something that deep down people won't or can't accept or understand about changing.
Maybe part of it is that it's hard to make p2p protocols work well and so people just aren't willing to try to tackle that and the challenge of getting that technology into browsers at the same time.
- gochi 3y agoThis doesn't really solve the problem, as it's incredibly easy to get IPFS support in your browser right now with a simple extension. No tinkering necessary. Yet IPFS is still rarely used, even within highly tech-literate communities.
- lebronlee 3y ago[dead]
- FireInsight 3y agoAn obvious problem is no servers. You'd have to get really creative to build a forum on IPFS, and hosting Wordpress is just not possible.
- gremlinsinc 3y agowhat if we had some sort of ICANN like service for usernames and app names, and to store metadata about all the networks, including a graph of the federation, ie who's federated with who... to me the biggest failings is usernames, and taxonomies. If I register a channel or username on lemmy, can I create the same channel and username on kbin? That's a huge fail, when you want something like Reddit, and I think Reddit was the best social network ever until the Corp destroyed it. The premise though, curated content and forums like Wikipedia meets Usenet, was brilliant. What comes next needs to be maybe partially centralized mostly federated.