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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by walterbell on Saturday January 12, 2019 @07:57AM (#18890989)
> skipping out on the debates that everyone else in the space is having - like whether decentralization can be fast, or how to ensure data authenticity, or whether a 'local server / pod' can be built that doesn't get hosed by hole-punching through a home Comcast connection

Where is a good place to participate in those debates, especially data authenticity and local server pods?

FreedomBox didn't go anywhere. FreeNAS with ZFS is reliable but not designed to be exposed to the public internet. Many local services are using a centralized rendezvous server for NAT hole punching.

On the shiny commercial front, MyAmberLife has $13M in funding for a home server but it's mostly controlled by a central cloud service. Do Western Digital, Synology, QNAP, Drobo, etc care about decentralization?

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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by tmcw on Saturday January 12, 2019 @11:35PM (#18895095)
Some relevant efforts are dat (and Beaker Browser, the user-friendly frontend), Secure Scuttlebutt (and Patchwork, the user-friendly frontend), and IPFS. Somewhat less legit (imho) is ZeroNet, and somewhat earlier-stage or more obscure is Upspin.
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