Another important point: non-web p2p clients have a high likelihood of being designed to "cheat" the network for their own benefit.
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A lot of work goes into preventing this behavior, and this goes beyond the "trustless" nature of p2p generally.
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But on the Web all of the code is "installed" by an authority (the website domain) and has a 99.9% chance of running un-changed.
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You still have to worry about proper signing and not entirely trusting other peers, but you can keep the network healthy pretty easily.
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In decentralized Web technologies the vast majority of peers can effectively be "controlled" by the installing authority.
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While today all this decentralization is viewed under the same umbrella, it's increasingly clear that they are going to widely diverge.
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History being a good guide, we can presume that things built outside the constraints of the Web won't survive a shift to the Web.
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Interestingly (to me, at least), going the other way is easier. Web is harder, so once something is "web ready", other stacks easily adopt
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Exactly. Building around the constraints up front makes all the difference.
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This is also why desktop-era JS frameworks are finding it easier to succeed in native app (packed) scenarios than mobile web; web is harder
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Building for sipping your app through a straw vs. the presumption of up-front install breaks a lot of "X is cheap..." assumptions
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It has been fascinating for me to watch how badly the JS-focused bits of the web community have adapted.
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