Yesterday, someone asked me, "What do you have against Web 3.0?"
I generally don't think the Internet should work like a casino.
Imagine having to spin a roulette wheel every time you opened a link.
"Oh! time to check my email!"
*puts money on black*
That's Web 3.0 in a nutshell.
@atomicpoet I think there’s plenty of good intentions behind it all, but I get the feeling that something like 95%+ of all the use cases work just fine as-is with a database and a secure server.
Also just look at the number of scams and multi-*billion* dollar collapses and it’s like “no thanks, it’s not really for me right now”
I’m interested in some bits of it, but on a fairly surface level.
it’s that it’s a combination of unbelievably evil and stunningly stupid.
To paraphrase an old quote, Web 3.0 is what stupid avaricious people think smart is. Sadly that includes literally every big business leader and their sycophants.
@atomicpoet It fully depends on how we define "Web 3.0". When I hear that "tag", I think of a World Wide Web at least as decentralized as it was at the beginning of the 1990's (without the Google, Amazon, Meta, etc. of today) but with added projects, like the #Fediverse, that allow us to shape our online communications and building processes, as much as we're shaped by them.
I'm not sure when & why that - now frequent - association between Web 3.0 and "money grab schemes" was born.
The "money grab" association is partly because Web3 was coined by Etherium developer Gavin Wood (blockchain was as fundamental to Web3 as decentralisation) and partly because tech journalists started hyping the term at the same time as the NFT craze
https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/web3-explained-crypto-nfts-bored-apes.html
Thanks a lot for that reference, @bornach! @atomicpoet Yes, in the blockchain world (or "microcosm"), "Web3" is, as far as I've seen, always used as a technical term - a dev friend of mine has actually gone beyond that, and written very interesting texts about Web4, that extends its decentralized patterns into biomimetics (it would require another thread to tackle that 🙂).
Ironically, Gavin Wood has left Ethereum (to launch "Polkadot", which is essentially "Ethereum 2.0" here and now).
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