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IPv6 and phones (many people never allow their phone to get so flat it dies, and if it does it’s soon recharged) ought to mean that every person in the world can host their own website effortlessly. The tech industry (telco & Google/Apple) make this basically impossible, so we (the tech industry) are the ones to blame IMHO.

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Phones also die and/or get discarded regularly, and a lot (most?) people don't do backups at all, or rely on cloud for backups.

Not to mention that I want my phone's battery to last as long as possible, and hosting websites off it will have an opposite effect.

Android/iOS, IPV4 shortage issues, technical hurdles, yeah the list abounds. Don't even need a phone, 10 dollar computers exist, it's mostly an accessibility issue, both of tech and IP.

The big reason to ditch the modern web entirely, though, is DNS - you pay a centralized thousands of dollars for rights to a name - if That's not centralization I don't know what is.

Truly decentralized means anyone hosts google.com, only difference is you pick which certs to trust. Probably by consulting your regional office/town hall, or similar.

Allowing incoming network traffic from any random place to a device that people install apps like free games on sounds like a really bad idea.

Do you think it's worse than using an application which runs untrusted remote code by design? A static webserver is incomparibly more secure and less of an attack surface than simply running a modern browser with JS enabled.

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