When we use the web, every site on this web is centralized.
Where the administrators or moderators can delete, block, mute and other administratively operate on their users.
As a user, do you ever think about to have a decentralized web where no admins or moderators can do any operation on you, and you can publish any content you wish to, even it is false and offensive.
If you agree to have such a web, how would you do to realize it? which technologies will you choose?
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No, but mesh networking or at least decentralized content delivery becoming the default is the best bet of what might. I am not affiliated with the article author, so there's no need to bring up blockchains to me.
I meant technology does get adopted based on rhetoric alone, which is unfortunate.
However, I am lost in the reply thread. And also in the sauce.
Unfortunately, it does 🐴
What makes you think I haven't seen the casualties of the war on drugs yet?
And do you really think that smuggling "private" bridges to people in China and Russia is somehow a sustainable solution, with the menace growing day by day?
And they can be easily fooled by moderators too.
web3 has nothing to do with d web:)
Free speech is limited to speech, which normally reflects a state of mind. Not we need no laws or rules.
I believe it is crucial, but I don't really see it happening right now.
I hope it will happen:)
Beyond the fact that we live in a world of Russia and China, do you really not believe that "illicit" drugs are a human right?
I think it’s useful for certain use cases. For example, if you have an important video you need the world to see, it would make sense to host it on ipfs or other decentralized services. Or if you want to chat with others and not have your discussions be censored, decentralization is necessary.
But, I do think centralized services are useful to help reduce the toxicity of online users. When you can’t easily delete content, it’s easy for abusive content to flood the internet.
I would agree that both centralized and decentralized web are needed. Both can cause problems, both have their value.
Centralized web are more efficient and cheap, while decentralized are slower and more expensive.
Centralized web can remove content easily, while decentralized can not simply remove contents user generated by others.