Researcher Ruben Verborgh explains how to re-decentralize the World-Wide Web, for good this time [verborgh.org]. He argues that decentralization is foremost about choice and thus people should be free to join large or small communities and talks up Solid [mit.edu] 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 [soylentnews.org] (2018)
Decentralized Sharing [soylentnews.org] (2014)