Have no idea what it is about, other than being decentralised. Some basic search results suggests that its a sham, scam and riddled with crypto ideas. Or is it apart of something noteworthy? Geuinly curious what the general consensus is of the Web3.
It’s a scam https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
It’s a marketing term. It means nothing. It was invented to sell scams. Just like Web 2.0, nothing changes in the underlying tech stack or the technical capabilities of the infrastructure. Unlike web 2.0 which was coined post-hoc to describe a qualitative change in the way the web was being used, web 3.0 was invented as a copycat term. A gimmick to create the illusion of technological progress.
There are very few use cases where an append-only database (like the blockchains that web3 are supposed to be based on) is a good idea. So the idea web3 is most focused on is artificial digital scarcity. That’s about as anti-web as I think you can get.
The term has been embraced and extended by the bandwagon of popular “journalism” in exactly the same way as “artificial intelligence”, “block chain” and plenty of others before then, “interactive multimedia”, “internet ready”, “plug and play”, “desktop publishing” and “turbo” to name a “few”.
You got something against cybersurfing the webbernet tubes?
You mean the information superhighway?
We’re gonna “log on” and “jack in!”
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The original idea was simply for people to control their own data on decentralised networks, I don’t think anyone had a problem with that definition. The term seems to be mostly crypto related now though.
The original idea was simply for people to control their own data on decentralised networks, I don’t think anyone had a problem with that definition.
That is how the web has worked since its inception. The fact that people choose to primarily go through a limited number of effective monopolies doesn’t mean the underlying structure is centralized.
But people aren’t using the web the same way they were at inception. These big companies have built closed source, centralized systems on top of the decentralized infrastructure to serve new use-cases that weren’t envisioned in the original standards. People like these new use-cases, so we need new standards, etc., to facilitate a re-decentralization of data and features in these new use-cases if we want the most used parts of the web to maintain their openness.
I don’t think it’s fair to lay the blame on the common user for the centralization of their data, when only the centralized systems have been providing the capabilities they want until very recently (where the open alternatives have arisen partly because of new standards like ActivityPub).
The DNS system is inherently centralised, so is IP address assignment. In both cases you have to got through a centralised agency or their intermediaries.
it’s all the same web 2.0 bullshit, but for anything with crypto in its name
This question is unanswerable without a concise definition of what is meant by Web3 ?
Web3 is a marketing term for Web2 sites that usually involve crypto/decentralized crypto-driven “metaverses”.
Web4 was employed by Meta/Facebook as a marketing to their “metaverse”.
Web 3.0 is a real term meaning an evolution of Internet oriented at establishing a universal framework for machines to easily process Web data, while keeping it fully human-readable.
Basically, it’s a buzzword and anything it’s attached to is pretty much a scam
Everything about it sounds awful, but especially thr people. Like, LinkedIn for unemployed douchebags
Fediverse follows the goals better
Dumb.
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