Atek: An open source peer-to-peer Home Cloud

> Currently there's a hole in the Web 3.0 stack: the runtime platform. While Ethereum is able to run programs on its global blockchain, there's no ideal way for users to run apps on their hardware. This means that intermediary services are cropping up to run applications which connect to blockchains. If this continues, the intermediaries may turn into the same kind of silos that the Web 2.0 has. Atek solves this by acting as a platform for users to install and run Web 3.0 applications, giving them ownership of their wallets, their data, and the programs they run.

core mission statement right there.

it dovetails with, attempts to right so many of the imbalanced out of control madnesses that were well chronicled in the recent "Web3 is a stupid idea". this article argues, rightly in my mind, that web3 is little more than a combination of one particular browser extension MetaMask and one particular client side file web3.js, which seem radically less than a system deserving the "web" name needs to bring. while there's plenty of blockchains galore under a lot of web3, the protocols to expose and use this web3 stuff are strikingly absent, & radically centralized. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28457762

commputing power is incredible & figuring out protocols & systems to share collaborate & distribute ourselves & our systems over is still the great open frontier. for all the hard work going into web3, it feels more like folks agreeing to give up systems, agreeing to let outside powers become our new systems. very much love Paul's sense herr, his attempt to reopen computing for the user amid this early distributedizations.