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Web Inventor Tim Berner’s Lee “Solid”: A Decentralized Data System
Why did we stop building the internet?
Ever notice we made it to email then were like, "wellp, boys, pack it up, our work is done here. Let's leave it to Microsoft, Google and Amazon, what could go wrong?"
How can we continue building the internet?
As a follow up to this post, what would the next steps for continuing to build a public internet?
WearyTraveler 10 months ago
I feel like a logical starting place is expanding on email as, like I mentioned in that other post, email was more or less the truly decentralized, public tool we built on the abundantly private internet. Which of course still has its own private elements - in fact, is primarily private - but its decentralized and fragmented nature makes it at least slightly less corruptible. Just not exactly sure in what way...
exocutis 10 months ago
We never stopped. It just got harder to change.
WearyTraveler 10 months ago
Sure sure, though I’m talking about major functionality that ultimately became purview of tech giants. There’s no reason we couldn’t have a decentralized protocol for financial processing or data exchange that’s similar to email protocol. They really built this thing to conduct physical and corporate warfare…what’s the difference, amirite?!
WearyTraveler 10 months ago
Yo, jAImesie, pull up that chat about the end of open internet contributions and tech bastardization by the monopoly. Decentralized Email 2.0 when?