[astazangasta]

Who cares? The web preceded the Internet company. I remember, it was a great place full of interesting people and things, not shitty content mills crammed full of ads. A system like the one described means that ordinary people can build the web again, which is great. Businesses can continue as they are.

[rgbrgb]

Ordinary people can and still do build the web. Why would decentralization allow for more of this? It's cheaper and easier than ever to spin up a heroku/do/aws/google/azure instance and put up a website. Things like squarespace and weebly even make it so you don't have to do any programming whatsoever.

In theory I want this decentralized web stuff to succeed but in practice the only killer apps I see are overthrowing governments and kiddy porn. I'd be happy to be proven wrong. From where I stand, decentralization seems like more of a social/product problem than a technical one. If you prove there's a product that end-users want that can't be built or accessed from the current web, people (end-users and developers) will switch.