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Is Web3 Bullshit?

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Re: Is Web3 Bullshit?

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Reading through the linked article on "real world uses for Web3", most of them seem to consist of things that public key cryptography has been able to solve for decades (persistent identity, multiple persistent identities) or things you could do anyway ("right now, people can only go to facebook or Google. With Web3, everyone can have their own space!!") because the writer has apparently never heard of a web server.

Another HNer made a good point recently: Compute power is nearing post scarcity. Web3 is people trying to make it scarce again.

Re: Is Web3 Bullshit?

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Web3 is not bullshit, nobody actually defined it properly, just like nobody defined properly what is Web0, Web1 and Web2. Web versioning methodology is bs, not the general concept of pinpointing what makes a big leap.

Does anybody here have a link to proper methodology for versioning the Web?

ps. Web is simply referring to a web of connected “pages” through links. Pretty much anybody who claims to work on Web3 says nothing about links.

Re: Is Web3 Bullshit?

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Web3 is not bullshit, nobody actually defined it properly, just like nobody defined properly what is Web0, Web1 and Web2. Web versioning methodology is bs, not the general concept of pinpointing what makes a big leap. Does anybody here have a link to proper methodology for versioning the Web? ps. Web is simply referring to a web of connected “pages” through links. Pretty much anybody who claims to work on Web3 says n…

This. As soon as I first heard about web3 I thought did I miss web2?

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Web3 is not bullshit, nobody actually defined it properly, just like nobody defined properly what is Web0, Web1 and Web2. Web versioning methodology is bs, not the general concept of pinpointing what makes a big leap. Does anybody here have a link to proper methodology for versioning the Web? ps. Web is simply referring to a web of connected “pages” through links. Pretty much anybody who claims to work on Web3 says n…

> The hazy vision of new decentralized internet, built on the blockchain

Ten years ago, web 3.0 was supposed to be the semantic web (whatever happened to this fad).

Re: Is Web3 Bullshit?

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It saddens me that they chose "web3" for the latest crypto pyramid scheme.

Call it what you want, but please don't sully the web with your plat du jour crypto antics.

Also for what it is worth, the web has been decentralised from the very start, I don't see what the fuss is about apart from just everyone getting rich selling the next hot coin/token/whatever.

Re: Is Web3 Bullshit?

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Web3 is not bullshit, nobody actually defined it properly, just like nobody defined properly what is Web0, Web1 and Web2. Web versioning methodology is bs, not the general concept of pinpointing what makes a big leap. Does anybody here have a link to proper methodology for versioning the Web? ps. Web is simply referring to a web of connected “pages” through links. Pretty much anybody who claims to work on Web3 says n…

So far, all "WebX" names turned out to be bullshit (or at best, pointless). Besides, the cryptobros seem to have a somewhat short memory: "Web3" was going to be the "Semantic Web" (which of course turned out to be bullshit too), so if anything, we're now at "Web4" for the next pointless hype cycle.

Re: Is Web3 Bullshit?

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Web3 is not bullshit, nobody actually defined it properly, just like nobody defined properly what is Web0, Web1 and Web2. Web versioning methodology is bs, not the general concept of pinpointing what makes a big leap. Does anybody here have a link to proper methodology for versioning the Web? ps. Web is simply referring to a web of connected “pages” through links. Pretty much anybody who claims to work on Web3 says n…

So like "agile development", everybody will define it by themselves.

Re: Is Web3 Bullshit?

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It saddens me that they chose "web3" for the latest crypto pyramid scheme. Call it what you want, but please don't sully the web with your plat du jour crypto antics. Also for what it is worth, the web has been decentralised from the very start, I don't see what the fuss is about apart from just everyone getting rich selling the next hot coin/token/whatever.

social networking 'web2' had little lot to do with web also
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