# 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:** [May 3, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/towards-the-vision-of-the-decentralized-web/530/34 "2018-05-03T11:17:52Z")

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Hi Adam, welcome to the CHT community! Nice to have you here 🙂

I agree that from a technological perspective the web is decentralized (in its core technologies). The centralization takes place in the ‘higher layers’, as you rightfully say. But I am thinking of the web as the concept that an everyday user of the internet experience, and the vision of Tim Berners-Lee wrt the web as a medium of freedom. So this expression accurately describes it, I think:

> " A Decentralized Web is a network of resources in which no one player can control the conversation or spin it to [his or her] exclusive advantage. "  
> _Simon St. Laurent, O’Reilly Media_

And this is less and less the case with big tech monopolies and walled gardens, etc.

I am very skeptical of blockchain at the moment, though it could still grow into something useful. I have posted about my perspective, [here](http://community.humanetech.com/t/attention-tokens-is-brave-doing-enough/24/13) and [here](http://community.humanetech.com/t/attention-tokens-is-brave-doing-enough/24/15).

Do you mean with ‘commune ways of living’ that decentralization creates a fragmentation into separate small(er) communities? I think this may be the case, but not necessarily a bad thing, especially when having them interlinked in a ‘web of co-op’ and based on open standards. Also don’t know if that would necessarily hamper investment.

Maybe change investment models… interesting subject, maybe create a separate topic around it. We already have [Who will invest in humane tech?](http://community.humanetech.com/t/who-will-invest-in-humane-tech/1900) , [Business model innovation](http://community.humanetech.com/t/business-model-innovation/1180) and [Are humane-tech apps non-starters?](http://community.humanetech.com/t/are-humane-tech-apps-non-starters/1449)

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