This link is inflammatory and does nothing to spark curiosity or useful discussion.
It's essentially the opposite of what HN is for.
Welcome to Web 3.0
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#12I understand that this is meant as satire but it is not an example of "web3" as intended - blockchain and digital assets are just two (optional) component of a web3 stack;
* can only be accessed through centralized DNS and Cloudflare (with no alternative way to get the front-end, e.g. ipfs, a git repo, or even a zip file with static assets that can be run locally)
* content only hosted on centralized server (unsplash.com / googleusercontent.com).
No sane person (even and especially the most ardent web3 proponents) would be proposing storing raw images on a blockchain for a use-case like this. There are far more suitable decentralized and/or distributed solutions for content distribution.
This is a strawman if I ever saw one.
https://web3.foundation/about/ (w3f skews heavily towards polkadot parachain solutions but look beyond the bias in their examples and it's quite representative)
http://piped2bbch4xslbl2ckr6k62q56kon56ffowxaqzy42ai22a4sash...
Re: Welcome to Web 3.0
#13This is the first time I see a strawman as a website. FYI modern chains cost less than a fraction of a penny to interact with (Avalanche, Matic, ICP) and some don't even require to pay anything (Ceramic). All these tired complaints are getting addressed and development is moving fast, it's about time the anti-web3 crowd catches up to it. Also, I'd like the author to make welcome2web2, with popups, paywalls, ads and s…
Please explain how blockchain will solve user-hostile UI.
Re: Welcome to Web 3.0
#14I'm seeing so much salt in the comments, I love it.
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#15Why does web 3 looks like fake Instagram?
You need to look beneath the surface. There is a fundamental difference. In Web3, not everyone can post pictures, only those who are rich. Furthermore, it is decentralized. Decentralized! No government can take away your cat or anime waifu picture! Web3 is also more than that. It is a platform. VCs love platforms. On this platform, anyone can create money and claim it's worth something! If you do this right, you can…
it's a bit like saying that with the discovery of threaded cotton, we will soon replace whatever it is we used to make clothing and make everyone pay premium for the new material, only the rich won't end up naked.
Yes some business models are money grabs, no face value add, but to represent the potential of web3 which itself is still unknown is an over simplification and focus on the bad side of what's been happening in the space.
don't brush the valuable uses cases away. guaranteed immutability, integrity, and even anonymity, all of that through trustless networks that guarantee incentives for the maintainers of those network can't honestly be so narrowly represented.
Fun preview though of what will be mistakenly built on networks such as Eth that is nowhere near scalable for this kind of use case.
Re: Welcome to Web 3.0
#16This parody is quite funny, but it's actually a take on the micro-transaction model more than web3. Web3 sites could work exactly the same as web2 sites except for the bits people want to own themselves. I don't imagine many people care about owning a Like or a comment.
What's perhaps even more fun to think about is that somewhere in a lofty corner office at Instagram there's someone with a math or compsci PhD doing calculations to figure out exactly how much every Post, Story, Like and comment costs to post on Insta, and precisely how often an advert needs to be displayed to cover that. At least with micro-transactions there's no adverts (in theory I mean, of course there would still be adverts) and it's all very obvious how you're paying.
Re: Welcome to Web 3.0
#17This is the first time I see a strawman as a website. FYI modern chains cost less than a fraction of a penny to interact with (Avalanche, Matic, ICP) and some don't even require to pay anything (Ceramic). All these tired complaints are getting addressed and development is moving fast, it's about time the anti-web3 crowd catches up to it. Also, I'd like the author to make welcome2web2, with popups, paywalls, ads and s…
But... the old internet didn't have any cost-per-interaction associated to it. Not to the consumers anyway. Why fix something that isn't broken?
Oh right, to make money.
Re: Welcome to Web 3.0
#18This link is inflammatory and does nothing to spark curiosity or useful discussion. It's essentially the opposite of what HN is for.
Yes, this boring flame bait.
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#19Closed that fugly pop-up with bunch of description and dived head first into this magical land of Web 3.0. Looks like a page with bunch of stock photos. Can we skip it and go straight to v4.0?
Re: Welcome to Web 3.0
#20This is the first time I see a strawman as a website. FYI modern chains cost less than a fraction of a penny to interact with (Avalanche, Matic, ICP) and some don't even require to pay anything (Ceramic). All these tired complaints are getting addressed and development is moving fast, it's about time the anti-web3 crowd catches up to it. Also, I'd like the author to make welcome2web2, with popups, paywalls, ads and s…
Please explain how blockchain will solve user-hostile UI.
The data is not held hostage by the centralized entities who serve you the UI.
If a website turns their UX user-hostile for whatever reason, one can simply build an alternative UI that interacts directly with the distributed data.