# Towards the Vision of The Decentralized Web!

**URL:** <https://community.humanetech.com/t/towards-the-vision-of-the-decentralized-web/530>\
**Category:** Humane design\
**Tags:** decentralization\
**Created:** [February 9, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/towards-the-vision-of-the-decentralized-web/530 "2018-02-09T13:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/towards-the-vision-of-the-decentralized-web/530/29 "2018-04-20T16:56:42Z")

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There was a big discussion on Hacker News today on the article below which introduces the decentralized, open-source Scuttlebutt as an alternative to Facebook (privacy-respecting, no ads, no 3rd party data collection, etc.)

[https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/](https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/)

And the HN discussion: [Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877603)

There are still a number of issues:

- The selected encryption method makes handling some edge cases difficult
- Android support is being worked on, but not production-ready (and based on NodeJS probably a battery hog. Note: I’ve worked on this as well, trying to run [NodeJS on Android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45459909/viable-options-for-running-nodejs-on-android-aug-2017/45649995#45649995))
- iOS smartphone support is in very early investigative stages
- The project was progressing slowly (but seems to get way more attention of late, after the FB/CA scandals)

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