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Re:Society Needs an Alternative Web by SamPatt on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:14AM (#19451390)
There is a major hurdle in getting people to install their own servers though.

We've seen this with OpenBazaar. It makes p2p pretty simple out of the box but if it's not in browser or a mobile app many won't even try it once.

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Re:Society Needs an Alternative Web by anderspitman on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:41PM (#19455125)
Something like Sandstorm[0] might be able to solve this, since then a person would hypothetically only need a single server (with a nice web interface) that they install all their decentralized apps into. In practice I think modifying the apps to be compatible is too much overhead. But I think something in the same vein could work.

I'm sure @kentonv has some ideas on what the main roadblocks to adoption are.

[0] https://sandstorm.io/

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