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RE: DTube made it on to Hacker News' frontpage as the top post
I would love your video on decentralization, but I'd love a text even more. ;)
I would love your video on decentralization, but I'd love a text even more. ;)
I'd prefer text as well since my spoken English is a horrible thing to unleash on innocent people, but it's probably just too big a topic for an article that gives you a good overview of the current state of decentralization :)
Next to artificial intelligence, decentralization is probably the hottest topic right now in tech because more and more people have noticed that the centralization of the internet has lead to huge issues, including the creator of the world wide web itself, so there are dozens of decentralization projects now and quite a few that are very promising and usable like ZeroNet, Secure Scuttlebutt, the Beaker Browser and many more.
And these projects all vary widely in their main purpose. Some try to tackle censorship, others try to make the web permanent so nothing is ever lost, some try to make hosting cheaper or even free, some try to build true anonymity into the system, and some try to do a combination of all those things. Especially interesting IMHO are those that also add monetization into the mix but without having to rely on advertising, like Steem does, because at the end of the day people who create good content should be rewarded for it.
I decided to do it in text form (optionally available as an audio recording) and split it up into multiple parts, to make it more manageable :)
The first part is out: The decentralization of the internet - Part 1 - What is decentralization and why does the internet need it?
The first part explains some of the problems with centralization and what decentralization at it's core means. The second part will have the more interesting overview of all the current decentralized networks and specifics on how they solve the problems or plan to solve them in the future. I'll add video clips to that one to show off the different networks.
Part 3 or 4 will go into the negatives that a decentralized network brings with it, especially when data becomes uncensorable and permanent. While I think the positives far outweigh the negatives, it would be dishonest not to mention them. Things like revenge porn for example would become impossible to delete, although it's already not possibly to fully get rid of something on the "normal" internet.