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by d--b
2841 days ago
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The web has some parts that are decentralized, and I think it’s worth noting the bad aspects of what exists today. Perhaps the most decentralized part of the internet today is BitTorrent. It’s a very efficient way of sharing files and has a lot of success. One can see how BitTorrent could become the backbone of a decentralized web. However: 1 BitTorrent “naturally” throttles popular files over anything else. Niche items which are hosted by fewer people will be slower to download => BitTorrent makes a cultural echo chamber 2 BitTorrent needs some kind of centralized search engine: it’s not possible for everyone on the network to host a copy of the entire index of files on the network. The only way is to have a search engine, much like Pirate Bay. In fact one could say that google was this in the first place. 3 decentralized social media would be much more polluted with fake accounts since no “authority” would be able to fix it. People have been excited by decentralized web for at least 5 years. The technology has existed for at least 10 years. If it was to happen, I think it would have happened already... |
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