<story><title>Introducing the Dweb</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stakhanov</author><text>What is this article even about?  Sounds to me like simply someone making up a word, &amp;quot;Dweb&amp;quot;, in the hope that it&amp;#x27;ll go into common usage, so they can later claim they invented it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>It seems to be the first in a series of blog posts about the distributed web as it sits now.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This is the first post in a series. We’ll introduce projects that cover social communication, online identity, file sharing, new economic models, as well as high-level application platforms. All of this work is either decentralized or distributed, minimizing or entirely removing centralized control.&lt;p&gt;I do agree they&amp;#x27;re making up a term, but naming&amp;#x2F;phrasing can change&amp;#x2F;shift dialogs and the default perspective and &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; actually important. Whether it&amp;#x27;s a good use of their time is another thing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing the Dweb</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stakhanov</author><text>What is this article even about?  Sounds to me like simply someone making up a word, &amp;quot;Dweb&amp;quot;, in the hope that it&amp;#x27;ll go into common usage, so they can later claim they invented it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>&amp;quot;dweb&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;dex&amp;quot; have both been used a bit within the d-whatever community (that community being users&amp;#x2F;advocates of Mastodon&amp;#x2F;Matrix&amp;#x2F;DAT&amp;#x2F;Beaker&amp;#x2F;Scuttlebutt&amp;#x2F;IPFS&amp;#x2F;Peertube), though the latter is more common, and the former is usually used to refer to protocol handlers enabling centralised websites to refer to the decentralised ecosystem, rather than as a name for the ecosystem as a whole.&lt;p&gt;So I don&amp;#x27;t think they&amp;#x27;re claiming to invent it. I do find it odd however that it&amp;#x27;s pretty much a zero-information lead-in article; it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like this approach will hook many in unless they already know what they&amp;#x27;re referring to in advance.</text></comment>