Decentralise ALL THE THINGS

Somehow, in the last years, we forgot about one of the things that makes the web awesome: It's decentral nature. This makes the web resistant to a number of threats, including state surveillance and suppression of information among other things.

This slide deck was the intro for a session I gave at jsunconf in April 2014 and sums up my current state of thinking. If future cfp's go well, I intend to turn this into a series of talks that hopefully will help people understand how current trends in web development and startup business are actively hurting the awesomeness and important functions of the web, a once utopian place.

Transcript

2. Why?!?
3. The Web is decentral
4. Resilience
5. Technological
6. Social
7. How
8. 1. Technology 2. Organisation 3. Business
9. Technology
11. ux ALL THE THINGS
12. 1. Setup/Installation 2. Maintenance/Ops 3. Usage
13. (please. let's fix this.)
14. Interop
15. Open protocols
16. Don't be over clever
17. Service discovery?
18. Security
20. Organisation
21. Decentralise all the things
22. HUGE ≈ BAD
23. Small things, loosely joined
24. Small orgs, loosely joined
25. Small deployments, loosely joined
26. !== self hosted
27. Business
28. World Domination ≈ BAD
29. (At odds with VC model)
30. (At odds with enconomies of scale)
31. Small businesses, loosely joined
32. Critical Infrastructure 1. Email 2. "Groupware" 3. Chat 4. ???
33. Coops?
34. Back to you...
35. @halfbyte jan@krutisch.de jan.krutisch.de