Yarmo
A lot can be said about moxie's web3 post.
I'd like to consider just one sentence here.
"People donβt want to run their own servers, and never will."
First part is true. But why?
Even my grandma can install android apps. Apps have become so easy because big tech pushed for it to be. Big tech never developed the concept of set-top box-like homeservers, not in their interest. If pushed like apps, homeservers would be easy too!
People don't want to? They never were given a proper chance to!
Yarmo
Ergo, if development effort was put into making homeservers as easy to set up as a set-top box, people maybe would run their own servers.
So they never will? If we push for sane decentralization with solid tech for at home, they might just in the future.
Thomas
@yarmo Free (a French ISP) put a fair bit of functionality in their router boxes, including file serving and a torrent client. And ordinary people use it, because it's easy to set up.
Imagine if they made it possible to have server apps ... That would absolutely be something normal people would use.
Nelson Chu Pavlosky
@yarmo Does anyone remember the p2p file-sharing era? Normal people ran servers on their computers.
Facebook released Wirehog, which was just an HTTP server "using dynamic DNS and NAT traversal". My non-technical college classmates had no problem installing and running it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehog
If file-sharing had been legalized (or MGM v. Grokster decided differently), we might have better versions of the technology now.
Web3 is useless unethical trash, but that claim is crap
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