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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by psyc on Thursday November 02, 2017 @12:37PM (#15611954)
Indeed, the Web became a juggernaut bandwagon, and got all the attention. Not for nothing. But I always felt the potential of the Internet was neglected as a result. There are other apps, notably MMOs, BitTorrent, blockchain and other P2P things.

I sincerely hope that the “re-decentralization” movement is able to attract hackers and gain steam.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by eterm on Thursday November 02, 2017 @03:14PM (#15613372)
That requires net neutrality. In general I think there's a danger that ISPs become "Web service providers" and refuse anything which isn't HTTP from rDNS-able addresses.

Of course people will just end up recreating TCP over HTTPS to get around these sorts of things, but I don't think we're headed toward a decentralised and opinionated (i.e. not heavily filtered based on traffic analysis) network.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by pfraze on Thursday November 02, 2017 @03:06PM (#15613312)
I gave a talk about a P2P Web at PDX node just a bit ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ep0ZIe6i10

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