<story><title>I made my first web0 website today. It&apos;s so cool it just works</title><url>https://elliott.computer/pages/web0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tehjoker</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s funny that web3 is being sold as the decentralized web when that&amp;#x27;s what the internet architecture was literally designed for -- to survive an apocalyptic nuclear war. However, big players used their ability to purchase infrastructure and unforeseen flaws in the protocols to centralize much of the activity on the web. Lol if you think money can&amp;#x27;t do that to any decentralized architecture.&lt;p&gt;One thing that would at least help. We got the web fractured from a p2p two-way street into a broadcast medium because ISP&amp;#x27;s were able to use the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space to limit stable IPs to business class connections. I can&amp;#x27;t claim we can bring that back, but wide deployment of IPv6 would at least demolish the argument against consumer static IPs and open up the network as a fair flat graph again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arnaudsm</author><text>I 100% agree. Imagine if self-hosting was taught in schools. Would Facebook and GMail be this big?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m dreaming of an alternate universe where you read your friends microblogs through RSS, with the client and timeline algorithm of your choice. Everyone has his own mail server, with proper open-source spam filters. Open-source is a public service, receiving donations from governments. We were so close to this.</text></comment>
<story><title>I made my first web0 website today. It&apos;s so cool it just works</title><url>https://elliott.computer/pages/web0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tehjoker</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s funny that web3 is being sold as the decentralized web when that&amp;#x27;s what the internet architecture was literally designed for -- to survive an apocalyptic nuclear war. However, big players used their ability to purchase infrastructure and unforeseen flaws in the protocols to centralize much of the activity on the web. Lol if you think money can&amp;#x27;t do that to any decentralized architecture.&lt;p&gt;One thing that would at least help. We got the web fractured from a p2p two-way street into a broadcast medium because ISP&amp;#x27;s were able to use the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space to limit stable IPs to business class connections. I can&amp;#x27;t claim we can bring that back, but wide deployment of IPv6 would at least demolish the argument against consumer static IPs and open up the network as a fair flat graph again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbecue</author><text>So true. IP address should have been like phone numbers. The public should have known what they were and how to use them for 2-way communications. I tell non-technical people about this all the time and get blank stares. It didn&amp;#x27;t occur to me that IPv6 could fix it. I sure hope you&amp;#x27;re right about that -- what a glorious day it would be if everyone gained control of their computers&amp;#x27; networking abilities.</text></comment>