[happybeing]

1. This is a fair point right now but it is only temporary. There's a SAFE Network App which will be the key to the network, providing a single point of contact, installing other things, seeing up a vault if you want to farm, create a wallet, updates etc. Most people will just download that and go from there.

2. Is also a reasonable point to make, but the nature of the goals here means it has to do a lot more than just sit on top of the existing protocols. It's a secure, decentralised, autonomous network/platform, which needs to be built from the ground up in order to solve the many problems we have with the existing web.

I'm not sure what you mean by monolithic. The ideas are new and can take a while to grasp but it's worth it.

3. The community have had long discussions about this so many will agree with you. But the best response I've heard to this point was from Tim Berners-Lee when he and David Irvine were at the Decentralised Web Summit in 2018. Someone said something similar to your point 3 to David and Tim jumped in and answered that it wasn't necessary by saying: and what was the killer app when I invented the web? Or something along those lines.

I'm not dismissing your point and many of us aren trying to come up with ideas for such killer apps.

Personally I suspect we already have some - take a look at the SAFE fundamentals for example. But it may well be something nobody anticipated. It's fun thinking them up though :-)

[api]

Here's a thought: podcasting.

Podcasting has the vibe of the early DIY web. It's largely independent and isn't "owned" by an oligopoly unlike social media. Indie podcasters sometimes struggle with distribution if they get popular. Lastly, it has a major vanishing content problem when old orphaned podcasts disappear from podcast hosting services but may still be interesting.

It would also be fairly easy to write a web-to-SAFE bridge server that allowed people to add podcasts hosted on the SAFE network to regular RSS podcast players. People could run this themselves or run open ones on the web, with the latter amounting to a community run CDN.

[nkot2020]

I ‘know a guy‘ who decided to build a music platform for the network and podcasting would be an easy addition. ;)

Although a dedicated and native recording and podcast publish app would be better and that idea has rolled through my head a few times. Have a good idea on the branding and interface already. Excellent suggestion and reaffirming for sure.

[SotRos25]

Great suggestion. Podcasting would definitely be a great and feasible use case. Given that SAFE provides a perpetual web, it could very well be a killer app.