Decentralizing the Web Despite Itself

The web is unimaginably large. Despite all recent challengers, it is still the most successful digital platform in human history. However, the web's centralized nature works against true user agency... and its success is one of the biggest barriers to changing it. Come learn about these challenges and about efforts by Mozilla and other projects to enable decentralized and distributed applications on the web today.

Video: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/decentralizing_the_web_despite_itself/

Transcript

1. Decentralizing the Web Despite Itself. Experiments and challenges in changing the largest digital platform in human history.
3. people
4. people
5. What does it take to be a 100 year organization technology platform?
6. people
7. I THE WEB.
8. people “BUT URLS...”
9. libdweb
10. people “BUT DOMAIN NAMES...”
11. people “PROTOCOL BROS” https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwsteeds/4877473706
12. people BROWSER SERVER REQUEST RESPONSE
13. people BROWSER SERVER REQUEST RESPONSE
19. ÐApps
20. Many islands in the sea.
21. SWARM CRDT BLOCK CHAIN KEY PAIRS WEB SERVER WALLET DHT APPEND ONLY LOG
22. Protocol registration TCP Sockets UDP Sockets mDNS Key management Filesystem
23. Where to expose? BROWSER WEB PAGE JAVASCRIPT WEB APIS EXTENSION CORE
26. PROTOTYPE ✅ LIBDWEB WEBEXTENSION DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE PROPOSED ✅ PRIV/SEC REVIEW IMPLEMENT + REVIEW
30. What does it take to be a 100 year organization technology platform?
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