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posted by chromas on Tuesday January 22 2019, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the RFC3271 dept.

Researcher Ruben Verborgh explains how to re-decentralize the World-Wide Web, for good this time. He argues that decentralization is foremost about choice and thus people should be free to join large or small communities and talks up Solid as a primary option.

Originally designed as a decentralized network, the Web has undergone a significant centralization in recent years. In order to regain freedom and control over the digital aspects of our lives, we should understand how we arrived at this point and how we can get back on track. This chapter explains the history of decentralization in a Web context, and details Tim Berners-Lee’s role in the continued battle for a free and open Web. The challenges and solutions are not purely technical in nature, but rather fit into a larger socio-economic puzzle, to which all of us are invited to contribute. Let us take back the Web for good, and leverage its full potential as envisioned by its creator.

Earlier on SN:
Tim Berners-Lee Launches Inrupt, Aims to Create a Decentralized Web (2018)
Decentralized Sharing (2014)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @04:28PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @04:28PM (#790116)

    The primary implementation offered of Solid is written in Javascript based on Node.js

    From the docs on the Solid Community pages. This makes it so much more attractive to me </sarcasm>

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by captain normal on Tuesday January 22 2019, @06:03PM (2 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @06:03PM (#790173)

    Yeah, well look at who the sponsors of Solid are: MasterCard and Qatar Computing Research Institute. The reason the web is such a mess is because of marketing monkeys seeking a scam.

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    When life isn't going right, go left.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:49PM (#790374)

      Yeah, well look at who the sponsors of Solid are: MasterCard and Qatar Computing Research Institute.

      It's the company that forced Paypal to cut service to David Horowitz and Robert Spencer for researching and blogging about the terrorist organizations that Qatar supports, and the exact site that Ethan Zuckerman shipped all of the censorship-opposing Gamergate users' data to.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @02:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @02:42AM (#790426)

      To be fair, Qatar are Moderate Muslims