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- what content is promoted or hidden,
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Billionaire Elon Musk, for example, infamously purchased Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, and became its CEO. With nothing standing in his way besides capital, Musk was able to completely reivent, albeit extremely controversially, one of the web's most used applications–all the while aligning himself with political leaders in the process.
Billionaire Elon Musk, for example, infamously purchased Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, and became its CEO. With nothing standing in his way besides capital, Musk was able to completely reinvent, albeit extremely controversially, one of the web's most used applications–all the while aligning himself with political leaders in the process.
However, there is a growing movement to "decentralize the web" by divorcing from these corporations and using technology to put power into the hands of the people.
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In 2022, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) made [$224 billion](https://proton.me/blog/google-privacy-washing)–nearly 80% of its total revenue–from advertising: which includes Google Search, Google networks, and YouTube ads. Our personal data directly fuels this advertising revenue.
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<img src="/assets/img/Centralized-Vs-Decentralized-Vs-Distributed-systems.png" alt="a blue diagram with three different topologies illustrating the differences between centralized, decentralized and distributed networks." style="max-width: 80%; height: auto;">
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<img src="/assets/img/Centralized-Vs-Decentralized-Vs-Distributed-systems.png" alt="a blue diagram with three different topologies illustrating the differences between centralized, decentralized and distributed networks." class="img-fluid">
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An overview of centralized, decentralized, and distributed networks, illustrating the key differences in their structures and control mechanisms. In a centralized network, all nodes are connected under a single, central authority In a decentralized network, no single authority server controls the nodes; they operate with individual entity, typically with multiple hubs. (Truong, Nguyen & Jayasinghe, Upul & Um, Tai-Won & Lee, Gyu Myoung. (2016). A Survey on Trust Computation in the Internet of Things)
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## 1. The Website – Built with CollectionBuilder (Lib-Static methodology)
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<img src="/assets/img/lib-static-values.png" alt="a table explaining the Lib-Static Methodology, broken into four keypoints." style="max-width: 80%; height: auto;">
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Collection-Builder is a project meant to follow the Lib-Static approach. The Lib-Static approach, created in 2018 by Evan Williamson, Devin Becker and Olivia Wikle, "focuses on practical, sustainable workflows using data-driven static web templates hosted on simplified infrastructure while leveraging (and building) the in-house specialized skills of librarians in metadata, data, and organization. This provides librarians unique agency and ownership over their systems, as well as meaningful opportunities for professional development leading to fundamental digital skills." (Lib-Static)
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<img src="/assets/img/lib-static-values.png" alt="a table explaining the Lib-Static Methodology, broken into four keypoints." class="img-fluid">
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Collection-Builder is a project meant to follow the Lib-Static approach. The Lib-Static approach, created in 2018 by Evan Williamson, Devin Becker and Olivia Wikle, "focuses on practical, sustainable workflows using data-driven static web templates hosted on simplified infrastructure while leveraging (and building) the in-house specialized skills of librarians in metadata, data, and organization. This provides librarians unique agency and ownership over their systems, as well as meaningful opportunities for professional development leading to fundamental digital skills." (Lib-Static)
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To start, this website is built using an open source tool called [CollectionBuilder](https://collectionbuilder.github.io/). Created by librarians at the University of Idaho, CollectionBuilder is a set of flexible, static web templates that are populated purely from our archive's metadata.
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## 2. The Archive – Files being served via IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)
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<img src="/assets/img/Centralized-data-storage-system-vs-IPFS-interplanetary-file-system-1-1024x576.webp" alt="" style="max-width: 80%; height: auto;">
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A graphic illustrating the fundamental differences between a traditional centralized client-server system and the decentralized architecture of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). (Extrimian, "IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) Wiki," 2024)
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## 3. The Cloud – We run our own digital space
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<img src="/assets/img/internet_topologies_with_ynh-0393b688fbcafc252b94fa13ef9635c6.png" alt="" style="max-width: 80%; height: auto;">
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A graphic from YunoHost illustrating the concept of "self-hosting": meaning, in this case, owning and administrating your own server, typically at home, to host your personal data and services yourself instead of relying exclusively on third parties. (YunoHost Docs, "About self-hosting")
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