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Decentralized technologies

Have you ever noticed a beloved app suddenly cluttered with ads, unwanted AI features, or data exploitation? This isn't accidental; it's a symptom of misaligned incentives in centralized systems.
Centralized services create lock-in, leaving users vulnerable to price hikes, data hostage situations, intrusive ads and features, censorship and bans, or backdoors and vulnerabilities. Users have 2 options: tolerate worsening conditions or abandon the service entirely, often losing data, connections, or convenience in the process.
In contrast, decentralized services with multiple providers allow users to switch easily, fostering competition and accountability.

Decent storage

There are a bunch:

https://storj.io/blog/busting-five-common-myths-about-decentralized-storage

Myth #1: decentralized cloud storage can't be real
Myth #2: if a storage node goes offline I could lose data
Myth #3: storing data in people's homes can't be safe
Myth #4: distributing the data must make it slow
Myth #5: the decentralized model is too complex to work with

Secure and private file sharing with FileZilla:
FileZilla is the most popular FTP client in the world, and it includes native support for the Storj decentralized cloud storage protocol by default. FileZilla Pro also supports the Storj decentralized cloud storage S3-compatible gateway.
https://storj.io/blog/secure-and-private-file-sharing-with-filezilla

Why the internet needs IPFS before it's too late
Why do we have a slow, fragile and forgetful web…
https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/04/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late

Links

🕶 Awesome distributed, decentralized, p2p apps or tools

Decentralization matters

Published Mon 14 July 2025
https://peergos.org/posts/decentralization

Why decentralization matters

By Chris Dixon, published Feb 18, 2018
https://onezero.medium.com/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f79f7638e

Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web

The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?
https://theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/decentralisation-next-big-step-for-the-world-wide-web-dweb-data-internet-censorship-brewster-kahle

centralised services provided by big companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon are also called “walled gardens”
if any of these centralised entities shuts down, your data and connections are lost
with the current centralized web, all that user data concentrated in the hands of a few creates risk that our data will be hacked
it's easy for governments to conduct surveillance and impose censorship

Reconnected - Decentralizing the internet alone won't lift it above politics or save it from corporate co-optation

By Paris Marx, posted July 26 2021
https://reallifemag.com/reconnected

Git is already federated & decentralized

By Drew DeVault, posted July 23 2018
https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/23/Git-is-already-distributed.html

Why Decentralised applications don't work

Posted May 23 2021
https://ingrids.space/posts/why-distributed-systems-dont-work
A very sad perspective, but it seems true:

blockchain = "get rich quick" schemes
wasting stupefying amounts of energy
Chrome and its derivatives hold an overwhelming majority of the browser market share and thus, Google gets to decide how the web works
email can be used without involving Google, that's technically true, but anyone they blacklist will quickly realise that they're largely locked out of the global email network
IRC/ XMPP/ Matrix are not very popular, or used
RSS/Atom?
Git = Github?!… They tweak the development workflow away from email with features like pull requests, and and they lock project data in with features like their issue system
Copyright holders have made BitTorrent so synonymous with piracy, that even non-pirate use is frowned upon

Planet XYZ

https://www.planetable.xyz
Planet is a free and open source software for publishing and following web content, and it does not require a centralized server or service. It uses IPFS to achieve peer-to-peer content distribution. Furthermore, you can link your content to an Ethereum Name (.eth) so that others can follow you via Planet by the .eth name. Since both IPFS and ENS are decentralized, you can build your websites or follow others, all in a decentralized manner.

Podcasts

https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode6 – IRL podcast (S4 Ep6: Decentralize It)
https://changelog.com/podcast/346 – Changelog podcast (Ep 346: Off the grid social networking with Manyverse)
https://changelog.com/podcast/236 – Changelog podcast (Ep 236: GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized)
https://changelog.com/jsparty/198 – Changelog podcast (Ep 198: The decentralized future)
https://changelog.com/jsparty/42 – Changelog podcast (Ep 42: Decentralizing the web with Beaker)