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I'm curious what you mean by "decentralize" here, because the web to me is the prime example of a successful decentralized system.
by skymt 12y ago
I'm curious what you mean by "decentralize" here, because the web to me is the prime example of a successful decentralized system.
- swsieber 12y agoMoreso than decentralized web I think he means decentralized site. Most sites are served by just a few servers. I think bittorrent is working on this with a project called Maelstrom: http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/12/10/project-maelstrom-the-internet-we-build-next/ http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/12/10/project-maelstrom-the-...
- skymt 12y agoThis is a cool problem, and while others have worked on it before (e.g. Freenet), Maelstrom could be a significant step forward in usability by using the look and feel of a normal browser. But these systems deal with static content. Distributed hash tables are a well-studied solution. Providing the same advantages of magic, trust-free, peer-to-peer replication to a dynamic (interactive and frequently-modified) site like Github is a much cooler and harder problem, and I'm not aware of anyone trying to solve it. Intuitively it feels impossible to create such a site without a distinct set of trusted nodes doing the work.