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Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web

The answer to these questions varies with different degrees of decentralization:

a practical guide to decentralization (for my friends) - tim's tinkerings

01 - Decentralized Web: An Introduction - Resource Guide

This resource guide was created to accompany Session 01 of the Webinar Series Imagining a Better Online World: Exploring the Decentralized Web. This session introduced essential DWeb concepts to library workers through demonstrations, resources, and examples of decentralized technologies in action. A video recording of this session has been archived by the Internet Archive and it can be viewed here.

The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy”

There’s a certain dark irony in watching tech billionaires who built their empires on the “democratizing power of technology” now actively working to dismantle democratic institut…

Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web

The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?

Practical Decentralization

The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.

Practical Decentralization

The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.

Decentralization: Worth The Wait — Open Tech Strategies | Blog

Ethan Zuckerman has a piece in Wired that says building decentralization tools is a sucker's bet. He and his coauthors, Chelsea Barabas and Neha Narula, mention the FreedomBox, which I helped lead, as an example of how difficult this stuff is. They point to a list of things that make decentralized efforts prone to failure and conclude:

Decentralisation as a shifting mental framework

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Decentralized Data Compliance Working Group

Working on clarifying decentralized storage compliance, shared ToS, code of conduct, and other public good outcomes - Decentralized Data Compliance Working Group

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

How Control Exists after DecentralizationIs the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly

Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards

Despite being designed and operated as a decentralized network-of- networks, the Internet is continuously subjected to forces that encourage centralization. This document offers a definition of centralization, explains why it is undesirable, identifies different types of it, catalogues limitations of common approaches to decentralization, and explores what Internet standards efforts can do to address it.

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by …

How Control Exists after Decentralization by Galloway, …

The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question

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