Decentralized Web: Research Findings
Who: Anna Lekanova
Date: July 15th
Time: 3:00pm EST / 7:00pm UTC+0
Language: English
What: The Decentralized Web or DWeb is a decentralized or distributed web that is not controlled by a single entity or being logically decentralized. Projects considered dweb are Tor Project, BitTorrent, Napster, or Bitcoin. Dweb projects are picking up steam - some focus on decentralizing identity and social networking, others are building distributed application protocols or platforms that run the web stack (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) on something other than HTTP. There are also block-chain platforms that run anything as long as it can be compiled into Web Assembly.
Anna Lekanova, from the Fluence Project, conducted a survey with more than 650 Decentralized Web Developers to find out their needs, the current challenges and their role inside the internet environment. Anna will share their highlights and conclusions of the survey, navigating through these key points:
- Main web pain points defined by the developers, like the complexity of the systems, lack of data ownership, current web business models
- Worries and Opportunities of the Decentralized Web as its privacy; surveillance and censorship; tech resilience, and the worrying current web business models.
- The hurdles of the DWeb adoption by web developers, like the lack of understanding by the general user or the immaturity of the new tech.
- The analysis of the technical motivations, ethics and fund model that run behind projects being built in the ecosystem.
Anna Lekanova is a decentralized web advocate. She leads community building at Fluence, a peer-to-peer computing protocol & a software licensing system.
