The Decentralized Internet

The decentralization of the Internet seems imminent, it is in fact something that is already happening at a remarkable speed. Internet users are beginning to notice the emergence of networks that provide greater control, privacy and security for whatever or any transaction they are doing, without the need for a "Central Authority" to collect their information for storage or use for who knows what...

The number of people who start to worry more about their privacy and anonymity on the net increases every day, little by little the number of people who start using Linux instead of Windows, Open Source Softwares over Closed Source, search engines that respect this anonymity, over the predetermined Google, among many other things with the aim of keeping their privacy intact and not giving personal information to big corporations. Decentralized networks do much to preserve this.

As there is no authority to store information, limit the user in any way or force him to follow its terms and policies, in a decentralized network each participant has a certain degree of responsibility and control, in other words, if we talk about servers, each computer becomes a server that connects directly to others without having to go through a central server. This makes it impossible to abuse the power of certain companies that own or rent servers.

A very good example of these networks are the ultra recognized Cryptocurrecy Market and the Blockchain, which allow you to make transactions without the need for a third party, greater privacy, greater control, where people reach an agreement without being manipulated by a central agent, much speed and efficiency and with government out of the equation... Basically with all the advantages and disadvantages of a decentralized system like Blockchain.

It is a technology that is expanding and showing its potential, a technology that teaches us what the future of the Internet should be like, independent and free, as John Perry Barlow wrote in The Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, there should be no government or corporation that could control us on the Internet, so alternatives to decentralized networks are gaining more and more attention, fortunately.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. _Source

We can have downloads via Torrent, we can have social networks without intervention and censorship from companies like Twitter or Facebook, markets, banks without the need to use banks... And a range of other opportunities, all in a decentralized manner where if you generate value, you will get something proportional to what you contributed... Consider it "The magic of owning a piece of cyberspace".

It is reason enough to be happy, because added to the many advantages that decentralization will provide us, we have to bear in mind that not only do they exist and will they exist, they will also become very popular and probably reach the point where they will become more popular than the centralized services that dominate the Internet today, those of us here at Steemit are part of this, of decentralization and certainly, we are witnessing something that will be extremely important and positive for the future of the Internet, thank you for reading... Peace.

#	References
1	A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
2	The future is a decentralized internet
3	The Importance of Decentralization