The bright and exciting future of the decentralized web

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Claim: this is explicitly not a blockchain talk and instead shows working alternatives: Solid pods (personal web servers), federation via ActivityPub + Mastodon, and content distribution with IPFS. Concrete signals: FANG controlled ~57% of web traffic in 2018, energy use from 2018–2020 triples, Inrupt raises ~50M and governments (Flemish, NHS pilots) fund pods. Prototypes exist and interoperability demos run, but moderation, takedown and pod security remain unresolved risks.

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1. 0:00Decentralized web intro
2. 1:54Decentralized vs distributed
3. 6:08Original web vision
4. 11:33Rise of Web 2.0
5. 16:54Centralized control risks
6. 17:38SOLID project overview
7. 25:25Exploring the Fediverse and decentralized apps
8. 30:30IPFS and P2P sharing
9. 34:48Censorship and politics
10. 38:22Decentralized web principles
11. 44:32Q&A

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