Decentralized Communication: Types and Applications

Decentralized Web09 Aug, 2022Technology

Google, Facebook, Alibaba, and Amazon? To name a few, control our communication on the internet in multiple ways. As per research Google has approx 4.3 billion users worldwide, making itself a necessity in our lives. But what do you do if Google blacks out? Internet blackouts have been a common issue today that makes us not want to trust major servers with our data and security. Other functions affected by blackouts include censorship, cyberattacks, technical problems, or human errors. It also makes us wonder how centralized our internet is today. Experts like David Clark believe that the internet should allow decentralized communication that is the ability to communicate during the loss of networks. Moreover, it should be cost-effective and have a distribution of resources. It shows that the idea of the internet was to be decentralized from the beginning.