"Last spring the #government of #Turkey did a terrible thing: It blocked its citizens' access to #Wikipedia on national security grounds. But then, one of the more amazing and wonderful things in Internet history happened: #Activists, using a new #openSource protocol called the #InterplanetaryFileSystem, mirrored the Turkish and Kurdish versions of Wikipedia and published it in a way that no government could thwart—and virtually anyone with an #Internet connection and a browser could access"
"(..) you can see some interesting work being done already. #Mastodon, is a #decentralized #TwitterKiller; YouTube, eBay and Spotify are under attack by blockchain upstarts; and companies such as #Po.et and #Civil are building token-based, #blockchain publishing platforms that aspire to create #sustainable #businessModels for #journalism"
#IPFS
#BigchainDB
https://mastodon.host/media/WF8yxjXebVCqcJYlvFo
"REWEAVING THE WEB: The movement to decentralize the Internet" - EXTRACT from Flipboard email: Show more
(PS. the illustration image is from a similar article in the Economist from 2016. ( https://www.economist.com/news/business/21700642-slew-startups-trying-decentralise-online-world-reweaving-web )
- I cannot seem to find any link to this newer one that just came in a Flipboard notification email. Cannot even find it searching within the Flipboard app...)
https://mastodon.host/media/y78dKr07kuothgkIWr8