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0 pointsoknoorap5y ago0 comments

It's time to decentralized Gmail, Youtube, and Google Docs, maybe their Search Engine too.

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sn415y ago· 2 in thread

That's what it was 15 years back. I was slightly concerned when Google Mail and Chat were integrated. Look where we are now.

Right from "The battle of the red cliffs", we will never learn the disadvantage of lashing too many boats together.

oknoorapOP5y ago

But our tech right now is far more advanced than 15 years ago.

We have IPFS, Blockchain, dat protocol today. I think it's possible to kill the giants.

Even, Tim Berners-Lee want to decentralized the web: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/09/tim-berners-lee-is-on-a-mi...

diggan5y ago

Even? Tim Berners-Lee tried since day 0 to make the web decentralized. One of the initial requirements in the 1989 proposal for a global hypertext system included "Non-Centralisation" where "new system must allow existing systems to be linked together without requiring any central control or coordination". See https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html for the rest.

While it went OK-ish for the internet, we massively screwed it up for the web.

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