Web3 Use Case - Decentralized Blogging
The Problem
For the 99.99% of the blogs out there, hosting on web 2.0 works. There is no need to have your blogs on a decentralized hosting platform.
No one is going to take your blog down. But for the 0.01% of the blogs out there, a hosting provider or even the government will want to take your blog down for public consumption.
Why?
There are some legitimate reasons. You could be committing a crime with the content on your blog. And they should be taken down, especially if it involves violence.
But often, it could be because they don’t like your content and are in a position in power where they can take down your content.
It could be something uncontroversial like health and nutrition related. A person could blog about the benefits of supplementing with Vitamin D. Nutrition scientists have increased the recommended dosage of Vitamin D over the years. The dosage recommended now would have been considered dangerous years ago.
I doubt the authorities would take your blog down for advocating high Vitamin D usage, but you never know who will be in power today, tomorrow, or in the far future.
The Solution
Web 3.0 solves this. Instead of hosting your blog centrally on a server, the blog can use decentralized hosting. This is where the blog is hosted on many servers. If someone tries to shut down one of the servers hosting your blog, there are 99 other servers hosting your content.
So if they shut down 90 of the servers, ten servers are hosting your blog.
And some of those servers are being hosted in someone’s garage in various countries around the world where it’s not so easy to shut down.
As long as one server is out hosting your content, you will still be able to serve your blog to others.
When someone updates their decentralized blog, it uses peer-to-peer technology to update the content on all the servers hosting their blog. So the blog content is the same on all the servers.
This allows the blog to be served up from any server when a person tries to access the blog on a browser.
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