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Why Decentralised Web is a necessity?

Anubhav Singhal on June 29, 2021

When web first came into existence in 1989, it was decentralised. Anyone could publish their content on the internet, and users could access that c...
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lepinekong • Edited

Can't be evil ? That's what was said about Internet which also was supposed to be distributed : this is the BBBC documentary Hypernormalisation that reminds of this ;) youtube.com/watch?v=Dw0BmPYTLyo

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Anubhav Singhal

Like I mentioned in the starting, web was started as decentralised, until the things went wrong.

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lepinekong

Yes but it can go wrong with Blockchain actually it has already begun when Bitcoin was brought to derivatives market ;)

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Anubhav Singhal

The derivations you're referring too is not because of decentralisation revolution, but because of crowd support trading, where majority is not even aware of what's cryptocurrency.

Also, check this Support for making Bitcoin legal tender grows in Latin America

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Matt Davis

It is unfortunate that this article does not include any mention of the NON-blockchain p2p protocols that people are working on for a Dweb.

From Hypercore (& Beaker browser), to IPFS, to Tim Berners Lee's own project Solid, to GUN database, to Secure Scuttlebutt, there is a growing ecosystem of projects exploring use cases for the Dweb that do not require blockchains.

If we're to maximize our opportunity to address the problems of the current web, we need to understand the full range of technical possibilities available to us. Blockchains are just one of these.

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Anubhav Singhal

Yes, I have read about them. I am not very familiar with those technology, that's why I didn't mentioned them.

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Mario

Pied Piper anyone?

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Anubhav Singhal

You might wanna try, Life after Google by George Gilder.

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Jay Jeckel • Edited

You'd have to directly run the web off the tears of children to be more evil than a web that is "driven through money, there is nothing free of charge". Doubly so if you are planning to build this new money-dependent web on top of Free and Open Source Software. If there is any fix to the problems of the current internet, making money a core factor isn't it.

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Anubhav Singhal

Yes, but It's not about making money the core factor, it's about removing the data driven business model. Check Brave Browser, it's based on blockchain, but it's available for FREE.

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Jay Jeckel

Regardless of the goal, the action is the same, putting money at the heart of the web.

And of course Brave is free, for the same reason Google stuff is free, because Brave wants to put ads in front of you. If there is something more scummy than websites filling themselves with ads, it's a browser filling other people's sites with ads. If Brave is the poster child of this new web, then that's a sure sign that the entire idea is flawed from the ground up.

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Anubhav Singhal

I think you should take a look at Brave advertisement system. It's based on consent of user.

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decentralized-web

Blockchains are decentralized in name only -
hackernoon.com/dino-decentralized-...

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Anubhav Singhal

I have attached similar links at end of my article which is written by Vitalic, and it presents a detailed argument about what is meaning of Decentralisation.

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decentralized-web

Quoting a 'guru' does not make claims to be actually true.

In your article you state blockchains allow peer to peer communication - not true. All communications by Dapp-s go through the blockchain. In case of Ethereum most of Dapp-s go through a single Infura node.
In addition please check - medium.com/hackernoon/towards-cent...