The Web 3.0 will be the proper uncontrollable internet.
Today more and more websites and social media outlets are becoming sources of de-platforming, media control and data mining for advertising purposes.
De-platforming is when websites are removed from services for using their free speech. The de-platforming can range from technical to monetary suppression and defunding.
Media control can be both government controls and industry controlled interests maybe controlled again behind the scenes by government or other major organisations. In the UK some events are not reported on deliberately and some are suppressed with a D-notice order.
Data mining is performed on personal data to produce an advertising product based on knowledge about you, that pays for your services. Therefore this service becomes indirectly controlled by the businesses that pay for the advertisements and your data.
So now I have created this holding page for links to new web 3.0 services that may break this cycle.
Once broken the Web 3.0 will be a myriad of autonomous sources and services impossible to control but still with ease of use.
To break this cycle, you have to break the control of the full technology and monetary stack either individually or as a organisation.
However as soon as a service is centralised it is at risk at being blocked easily.
So making a start below. Watch this space as I will find more.
Application Stack:
Note: many applications overlap categories.
- Private Messaging: sharing media on a timeline to point-to-point or limited group
- Public Messaging: sharing media on a timeline to the public
- Social Network: sharing media on a timeline to a controlled group
- Private Streaming: sharing live media point
- Public Streaming: sharing media permanently available to the public
- Private Payments: single payments point-to-point
- Public Payments: regular payments from public to organisation
Technology Stack:
- Hardware: Servers and network equipment holding and transferring your data
- Network Services: Network providers like ISP’s and backbone providers
- Domain Services: The domain name and service holding it pointing to your data
- Server Software: Software for serving webpages and other data feeds
- Client Software: Browsers and other clients as containers for applications
- Application Stack: The combination of the above technology stack
Monetary Stack:
- Payment Systems: Transfer and clearing of value
- Currencies: A piece of value that can be exchanged
- Banks and wallets: Containers or holders of value
- Credit: Access to funding
Application Stack Examples
Private Messaging
Alternatives to WhatsApp; Messenger
Public Messaging
Alternatives to Twitter
Social Network
Alternatives to Facebook
- None so far
Private Streaming
Alternatives to Skype; Zoom
Most private messaging apps above can provide this
Public Streaming
Alternatives to YouTube
Direct Payments
Alternatives to Paypal
- None so far
Public Payments
Alternatives to Patreon
Technology Stack Examples
Hardware:
- None so far; PC is closest to open hardware
Network Services:
- https://www.libremesh.org/: Open source mesh networking which can make ISP’s redundant
Domain Services:
- https://www.domainsbyproxy.com/: Privacy focused registrar for DNA names
- https://www.opennic.org/: Alternative DNS root holding DNS names
- https://www.epik.com/: Free speech friendly provider used by gab.ai
Server Software:
- https://wordpress.org/: The open source website server
- https://joinmastodon.org/: Decentralised locally controlled twitter like network
- http://www.haproxy.org/: Open source load balancing and DDoS protection
- Mastodon: Self hosted forum; so anything allowed
Client Software:
- https://brave.com/: Protected browser
- https://beakerbrowser.com/: Browser that can act as a decentralised web service
- https://freenetproject.org: Browser that can act as a decentralised web service
- https://zeronet.io/: Browser that can act as a decentralised web service – bitcoin based encryption and payments
Cloud Services:
- https://gab.ai/: Uncensored but centralised twitter like network
- https://mightynetworks.com/: Centralised social network with monetarisation
- https://www.bitchute.com: YouTube like service with free speech
- https://duckduckgo.com/: Alternative search page
- https://www.startpage.com/: Alternative search page
Monetary Stack Examples
Payment Systems:
- https://bitcoin.org/en/: A decentralised currency not controlled by any central bank or payment system
- https://www.secondamendmentprocessing.com/: A free-speech friendly payment processor currently being used by gab.ai
Currencies:
- https://bitcoin.org/en/: A decentralised currency not controlled by any central bank or payment system
- https://ethereum.org/: A decentralised vehicle for blockchain development
Banks and Wallets:
- https://electrum.org: A bitcoin wallet
Other References
- https://www.eff.org/: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- https://www.electronicbeats.net/a-beginners-guide-to-the-decentralized-internet/: A Beginner’s Guide To The Decentralized Internet