Yesterday, someone asked me, "What do you have against Web 3.0?"
I generally don't think the Internet should work like a casino.
@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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