I accidentaly stumbled upon this newish browser (even has IPFS support) called LibreWeb Any thoughts ?
I don’t really get the idea of decentralized internet.
The internet is already decentralized. There are millions of websites hosted on thousands of separately-owned machines.
“Decentralized” services like the fediverse use thus exact same structure and bind them together by a search/aggregation API.
The “centralized” part of the internet is DNS/IP Assignments, Service providers, and search.
You are perfectly allowed to go your whole life without using search, or by self-hosting searX.
If we go back to the age of webrings, that is essentially decentralized internet. It seems like every decentralized internet idea is just a rehash of this with some Tor ideas sprinkled in.
You are never going to be able to pull a “Silicon Valley” and make every device into a mini server. The ping and uptime would be horrific.
This is the de-mozillaed Firefox right? I’ve heard of it recently too. IPFS sounds really cool but isn’t it a dud because it uses a singular gateway or something?
No, you’re thinking of LibreWolf. This is like an IPFS browser that interprets markdown to render simple sites within the IPFS network
If you have a moment, could you enlighten me as to what this singular gateway LibreWolf uses refers to per the top level users comment? Thanks.
They weren’t talking about LibreWolf when making the comment about the singular gateway, they were talking about IPFS. But it’s right there, you can read it again. Or even ask the original commenter, either by directly replying to them or by tagging them, e.g. @ComradeMiao@lemmy.world can you answer @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml’s question?
What in the hell is IPFS and why am I just hearing about this? Is this like a new web?
been around for a bit. peer-2-peer webpages
That sounds awesome, I wanna try it now.
