I can guarantee you that number is less than a million people. And considering internet hosts Billions of people, that is less than .1% of people in the world. We can safely generalize people don’t want to run their servers
And how many of those billions of people are using Internet in read-only mode, not creating any content? Don't know the percentages, but clearly it's a big majority, and that majority doesn't really need any servers on their own, there's no enough incentive for them in it.
But as views on the importance of privacy change, perhaps that will change too? Perhaps people will want an extra layer of protection, if it can be made easily available and convenient enough to them? Any modern phone's hardware right now could easily run a number of service nodes in some distributed network, if there was such a thing and if their use could be made fairly transparent to ordinary users.
Right, but then what’s the selling point of a “decentralized internet” if like you said, most people have no incentive to have servers of their own. Decentralized internet is what is being sold in web3.
Improved privacy and better control over owning your own content. Both of these things, of course, are currently looking completely irrelevant to like 99.9% of people online, but as the surveillance increases exponentially this might change. Or not, we'll see.
> And how many of those billions of people are using Internet in read-only mode, not creating any content? Don't know the percentages, but clearly it's a big majority
I wouldn’t be so sure. Each day there are 4.5 billion items shared on FB (including 350 millions new pictures) and 500 millions new tweets.
I can guarantee you that number is less than a million people. And considering internet hosts Billions of people, that is less than .1% of people in the world. We can safely generalize people don’t want to run their servers