The bright and exciting future of the decentralized web
summary
Argument: the web is re-centralised (FAANG handles 57% of traffic in 2018, triple by 2020) and that decentralised alternatives already work. Technologies named: Solid pods (user-controlled data stores, Inrupt raised $50M, Flemish government and NHS pilots), ActivityPub (Mastodon hits ~10M users and federates with WriteFreely via ActivityPub interoperability), and IPFS (peer‑to‑peer hosting, Brave support, Wikipedia mirrored for censorship resistance). Practical builds and pilots exist.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50What is a decentralized system
- 3:40Mastodon
- 4:22Distributed
- 6:07The worldwide web
- 7:57Wikipedia
- 8:24Unleashed upon the world
- 12:04generative AI
- 12:55Centralized data
- 15:28ThinkPad beep
- 16:23The Solid Project
- 24:20Fediverse
- 25:51Freely
- 28:54IPFS
- 34:50Dweb
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