White Blue • 11/12/2020

Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web

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The author details their 2019 work with IPFS and the decentralized web, explaining their initial excitement about its technical benefits. They then describe their 2020 exit, citing ethical concerns about creating an unfiltered, uncensorable platform that could enable harm, leading to a broader critique of full decentralization.

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