He makes some good points about P2P and Web3 being difficult. Maybe the mass audiences will never use them, but we still urgently need them. While various groups battle over controlling what we are able to say on social networks smaller, independent sites like Poal are the escape hatch where the truth can still get out.
You can think of small forums sites as federated. They all use HTTP. All I need is a web browser to use them. Hopefully they will never go away, but true peer to peer messaging and forums would be a game changer. Modern liberals would whine about all the things people are able to say freely, but our governments would have to lock down the internet like China to control one of these networks.
He makes some good points about P2P and Web3 being difficult. Maybe the mass audiences will never use them, but we still urgently need them. While various groups battle over controlling what we are able to say on social networks smaller, independent sites like Poal are the escape hatch where the truth can still get out.
You can think of small forums sites as federated. They all use HTTP. All I need is a web browser to use them. Hopefully they will never go away, but true peer to peer messaging and forums would be a game changer. Modern liberals would whine about all the things people are able to say freely, but our governments would have to lock down the internet like China to control one of these networks.
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