Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient
by panick21_ on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @11:23AM
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Having been interested in decentralization for many years, I never heard the term 'Web3' before 'Crypto'. Maybe it existed but certainty hear it about 1000x more now.
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Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient
by littlecranky67 on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @12:00PM
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But the web is not a decentralized place. You put content on servers, and everybody downloads that content from there. There a copies or caches, yes (CDNs but also old-school http proxy caches). But if I remove content from my server (or a tweet), its no longer accessible by standard means. We build a whole set of technologies to not have a single-point-of-failure (i.e. load balanced servers + replication) but for example in CCN/IPFS you can publish content a single time from a very slow dialup line, and in theory it could be accessed by millions of users (which in todays world is only possible if you put it on a CDN or run your own datacenter to satisfy requests at that scale).
Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient
by threeseed on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @03:43PM
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There are hundreds of companies providing managed object storage and likely tens of thousands with file storage.
And you are free to create your own. It IS decentralised just at a different granularity to IPFS.