Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0

The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question

Fixating on the degree—rather than the type—of decentralization is leading us astray.

Web of the People — Open Indie

Whether you think of web3 as the advent of peer-to-peer protocols, coin-operated blockchains or autocomplete-AI synthesizers, change is c...

Holochain | Distributed app framework with P2P networking

Holochain delivers beyond the promises of blockchain by providing a lightweight, secure and versatile framework for everyday distributed apps.

Web-based cryptography is always snake oil

Nowadays, there is an epidemic of web applications purporting to offer “end-to-end” encryption. Examples might range from a file upload service, which allows you to upload and share files of arbitrary size and promises “end-to-end encryption”; or a web-based password safe service which claims that it can't see your passwords because they're encrypted; or a web-based cryptocurrency wallet.

Chris Granger - "Is Web3... anything?"

The term “web3” seems pretty fluid and is being used as a label for a bunch of disparate ideas. Given that it’s a decentralized group describing a decentralized movement, that lack of focus isn’t exactly surprising. Almost by definition it’s going to end up being different things to different people.

The Debate Over DWeb vs. Web3 & The Decentralized Elephant in the Room | FFDW

Comparing DWeb and Web3's approaches to decentralization, focusing on the key question: who designs, controls, and benefits from these technologies?

P2 Ventures | Funding for dApps and Web3 projects

We’re looking to fund big ideas and innovative teams. Get your dream Web3 project funded through P2 Ventures.

AlternativeProto - Decentralized Web Catalog

Discover decentralized alternatives to popular websites and webapps built on the AT Protocol

From Volunteer Gardening to Building Next-Gen Distributed Web Apps: My Journey to Holochain App…

A story about discovering community, a mind-warping internet paradigm and a global network of unconventional software engineers.

Web Crypto’s SubtleCrypto: A Masterclass in Developer Hostility and How It Strangles the Modern Web

Not Subtle, Just Sabotage — An API Against the Web

12 November 2025 | Isolated Web Apps - Current state and future direction | Calendar

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

NextGraph - Decentralized, encrypted and local-first platform and framework, towards the better internet we all deserve!

Features a social network, shared documents, productivity tools, an app store, and more! You can use NextGraph for free : resilient, secure, private and encrypted. You own your data and software! Developers can build new web3.0 local-first apps with our open source framework, based on open standards, with CRDTs, E2EE, Linked Data, JSON, Markdown...

Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era

The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.

Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality

The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending

Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web? – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.