The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer. A woven network of online cultures, content and information that promised to dissolve our physical and social boundaries, creating the digital democracy of which we are all citizens.
Now, more than ever, we need that connection. However, the World Wide Web continues to fall apart. The free and open internet is slowly disintegrating in the hands of governments and corporations. More and more countries are fencing off their own closed national internet networks for reasons that seem purely political at best and authoritarian at worst.
As business begins to sprout online, governments are naturally looking to expand their power in the digital world. Internet service providers and network infrastructure companies are subject to local laws where they are based, which means that the Internet cannot exist outside the control of legislators. All this goes against his founding philosophy and original vision of "openness, collaboration and creativity."
Existing networks only spur censorship and the desire to make money on them. Large companies collect contact and payment information, text entries, photographs and other information that is important to everyone. In the event of a successful hacker attack or liquidation of the company, all arrays will be lost. This is exactly what happened in the fall of 2018 with the smartphone social network Path. Launched in 2010, the application completely stopped working: uploaded posts, photos and correspondence disappeared forever with it. Meanwhile, the audience of the service at the time of its popularity reached several tens of millions of users.
At the same time, users are forced to follow the rules that certain applications introduce. Facebook selectively blocks users for “inappropriate” posts, Instagram is known for its image restrictions, and liking or reposting on VKontakte has recently become simply dangerous. Internet censorship and blocking services are forcing users around the world to look for new ways to access their familiar sites and applications. While some users are promoting illegal ways to circumvent the bans, the developers have thought about how to avoid such problems forever. The solution could be a new Internet, where no one can restrict access to any information. The new Internet or Web 3.0 will allow users to forget about imposed restrictions forever.
The protection of everyone's personal data seems to be the main idea of \u200b\u200bsupporters of the decentralized Internet. In fact, it is. The concept is really built mainly around preserving the intimate space around users. They themselves will be free to choose what and to whom to convey.
People have long strived for self-organization in the network. The most striking indicator of this has been the popularity of blockchain technology. Back in 2016, at the first summit dedicated to the decentralization of the Internet, this technology was called the first step towards a new Internet.
All downloaded data will be stored little by little on all devices, and not in the cloud, as it is now. Everyone guards their part of the vault, protecting both themselves and others at the same time. The distributed system allows you to keep confidential information in secret, whether it is personal correspondence or data from a virtual medical record. In addition, users themselves can set the rules for using a particular service, moderate their presence in it and set up advertising. In addition, we will win in connection speed.
How will Web 3.0 work? There are two big differences in how Web 3.0 works compared to the current World Wide Web. Firstly, this is a p2p network, where the computer not only requests the required service, but also provides it itself. Second, Web 3.0 offers new ways to store and retrieve information. We currently use links containing http and https to identify information on the Internet. They point to the location of the content and instruct our computers to find and retrieve the information using the http protocol. Web 3.0 protocols will use links that identify information based on its content rather than location. This content-centric approach allows websites and files to be stored and transferred from computer to computer, most often without having to rely on a single server for communication.
What does this mean in simple terms? On the traditional Internet, we specify the location of information and assume that it is only there. This results in the monopolization of the network, because whoever controls the location of information also controls access to it.
Thus, all these factors will significantly reduce the risk of corruption, illegal activities or fraud, thus preventing the censorship of important information.
There are many attempts to create a decentralized social network at the moment. One of those is Solcial - a decentralized social network, which will be based on the openness of the presentation of information, the absence of censorship within reasonable limits and fair remuneration. All personal data and content is stored on the computers of all network users. Network management is shared by multiple network nodes that share responsibilities equally and run the same software. The information stored in such a network cannot be replaced or corrected, because it is stored on many computers at once, and the performance of the system cannot be affected by any single person. We can be sure that we manage our data ourselves and decide whether to advertise it or not.
The rules for publishing content, its ranking, as well as the right to make a profit will belong to the community, and not to the conditional owner of the server, as is implemented in the usual social networks. The lack of a center also eliminates the technical possibility of deleting posts or accounts. Moderation is transferred to the hands of the community, however, even there the rules are recorded in the blockchain, which means that they cannot be interpreted by the moderator in two ways.
All interaction and all data on the network can be tokenized. This will allow:
mark content so as to assign it a unique attribute. This will allow you to deal with multiple copies of the same information, it will be easier to find the original source and save time in search of original content;
take advantage of new opportunities to earn money online. This applies both to the receipt of royalties by the authors of articles, videos, etc., and to rewarding users only for viewing and reading content.
In addition, there will also be a reward system. Every view, like, comment and other active actions are monetized and bring profit to the content creator. Buy/sell tokens that are linked to blogger profiles and earn money from their growing popularity. Ads can also be run and will generate revenue for users. We can also earn on content.
In conclusion, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other web giants that emerged in the Web 2.0 era are based on their own interests. They consider users only as a source of income. Pay for such an attitude, in the literal and figurative sense, the users themselves.
But the main idea of Solcial can be called the absence of intermediaries. Users will receive anonymity, forget about hacks and account blocking, and will receive full profit. However, Solcial is only at the beginning of its journey. It is still almost unknown to the audience of the traditional Internet. Therefore, all forces should now be directed to the popularization of this project.
Now it is difficult to say what new technologies, projects, economic sectors and services will be developed during the transition to Web 3.0. But it will definitely be interesting to watch.
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