>People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.
The older I get, the more I see that there is not much point in making arguments about topics. You can argue whatever you want, and it ultimately isn't about proving something is true or false, it is about feelings and what you want to happen based on your own desires.
This whole section about running servers can be argued against. I never thought I would see normal people with "gaming computers", yet here we are. "People don't want to bother with the hassle of gaming computers". etc etc. Same arguments. Things change, and the past does not dictate the future. I mean, half the reason people didn't want to run servers was because the web wasn't centralised. So now that has changed.
Other changes have occurred like the availability of the raspberry pi - a cheap, powerful, silent, relatively simple computer that can be used as a server. I remember back when Windows Home Server was a thing. It was packaged in these large noisey computers, running proprietary and expensive software. I didn't want to run a "home server" back then either.
Whether people working at businesses want to run their own servers is irrelevant. I doubt they care about any of the things that would be relevant to home servers. They are often running lots of different servers with complex security rules and various applications. The managers see the cloud as a way not to hire expensive people they don't trust. The programmers don't care because it isn't their own product, and hate IT because they make you jump through a bunch of hoops to do anything. It is all a completely different environment to one person running one server at home.
There are still impediments to running home servers that, if lifted, could make people more likely to run them. Static IP addresses are often expensive add-ons, for example. Upload speeds are sometimes too slow, and so on.
Anyway, I don't even know what web3 is, I just know that people can get anything done if they have the will to do it.
The older I get, the more I see that there is not much point in making arguments about topics. You can argue whatever you want, and it ultimately isn't about proving something is true or false, it is about feelings and what you want to happen based on your own desires.
This whole section about running servers can be argued against. I never thought I would see normal people with "gaming computers", yet here we are. "People don't want to bother with the hassle of gaming computers". etc etc. Same arguments. Things change, and the past does not dictate the future. I mean, half the reason people didn't want to run servers was because the web wasn't centralised. So now that has changed.
Other changes have occurred like the availability of the raspberry pi - a cheap, powerful, silent, relatively simple computer that can be used as a server. I remember back when Windows Home Server was a thing. It was packaged in these large noisey computers, running proprietary and expensive software. I didn't want to run a "home server" back then either.
Whether people working at businesses want to run their own servers is irrelevant. I doubt they care about any of the things that would be relevant to home servers. They are often running lots of different servers with complex security rules and various applications. The managers see the cloud as a way not to hire expensive people they don't trust. The programmers don't care because it isn't their own product, and hate IT because they make you jump through a bunch of hoops to do anything. It is all a completely different environment to one person running one server at home.
There are still impediments to running home servers that, if lifted, could make people more likely to run them. Static IP addresses are often expensive add-ons, for example. Upload speeds are sometimes too slow, and so on.
Anyway, I don't even know what web3 is, I just know that people can get anything done if they have the will to do it.