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LibreWeb: 🌍 Decentralized Internet

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LibreWeb Browser - Decentralized Internet alternative, using IPFS.

I accidentaly stumbled upon this newish browser (even has IPFS support) called LibreWeb Any thoughts ?

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I like the idea but it doesn't seem incredibly usable rn

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It not only supports IPFS, it is "built on top of" it, according to the website.

This makes me wonder if it's usable for regular web browsing or only IPFS sites. The latter would sort of make it a splinternet browser, and way less interesting.

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- It's definitely the latter. The sites it renders are just markdown files stored on the IPFS network. I don't think it can render HTML let alone a modern web app on the internet
  
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  I do love markdown files myself, so a browser-side parser is very interesting. Definitely skips some Jekyll/Hugo exports 🙂
  
  Limiting that feature to IPFS is sort of one sided for my taste, though.
  
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  For now it's a WIP project by one of the creators of Mbin
  
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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.

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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?

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- No, you're thinking of LibreWolf. This is like an IPFS browser that interprets markdown to render simple sites within the IPFS network
  
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  Now Markdown needs a decent spec, but that is cool
  
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  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.
  
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What is IPFS?

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- InterPlanetary File-System basically an upgraded version of torrenting
  
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  IGFS when?
  
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I wonder what they did to get their YouTube suspended.

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What in the hell is IPFS and why am I just hearing about this? Is this like a new web?

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- been around for a bit. peer-2-peer webpages
  
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  That sounds awesome, I wanna try it now.
  
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