Who Pays For The Decentralized Web?

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?

Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web

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

André Staltz - A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet

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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?

Tim Berners-Lee on the huge sociotechnical design challenge | TechCrunch

In a speech discussing ethics and the Internet, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has tasked the technology industry and its coder

André Staltz — A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet

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Reweaving the web

A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world

Department of Decentralization | Department of Decentralization

The website for the Department of Decentralization

Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com

Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.

co/infra

Free, public infrastructure for the open social web, run as a community cooperative. - co/infra

Grant for the web

The Interledger Foundation’s Grant for the Web program awarded $200,000 in total to content publishers and publishing platforms in 2025. Grantees are implementing support for Web Monetization and exploring the viability of a revenue model between ad-supported access and paywalls using Web Monetization..

Netlify, a service for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M | TechCrunch

Mathias Biilmann — a former CTO of a firm that built websites for small businesses — says developers have gotten so used to using Github as a central

De-google-ify Internet - Main Page

The web giants centralize our digital lives in exchange for their services The Free Software community offers alternative ethical services The Framasoft network intends to prove itby hosting them

Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.

Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

People building the future of the social web—interoperable and decentralized—need to protect themselves against copyright liability. This post gives an overview of the steps to take. It’s meant for