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> Web 3.0 is Tim Berners Lee's vision for a decentralized web: TBL is not the central arbiter of web 3, in much the same way he didn't have anything to do with the coining of web 2.0.
There's still an important distinction between "the semantic web" and "a bunch of cryptocurrency fuckery", both of which have been termed "Web 3" at times.
What's a succinct definition for Web3/3.0/etc that I can tell my mother in law in 20 secs? I don't actually know what it's meant to be.
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Exactly… NFT’s blah blah .. blockchain everything .. came off as like a sales pitch and never seemed to resonant as where the web was headed
Web2: you stop paying a cloud provider, your data is gone. Web3: you stop paying a network, your data stays online. Either because it's permanent by default (blockchain, blockweave) or because people deem it interesting and pin it (IPFS) Seems like a fundamental improvement to me.
https://coloradosun.com/2022/11/21/brush-eastern-colorado-se...
> Two school administrators on Colorado’s Eastern Plains were accused of possessing child pornography when they investigated a school sexting case last April. No one said the men were trying to distribute the images or had bad intent. The girl in the photos and her parents begged police and prosecutors to drop charges against the men. But one of them, 32-year-old Bradley Bass, is facing up to 12 years in prison and the possibility of being branded a sex offender. He’d have to give up his career in education, and wouldn’t be able to parent his toddler and baby boy.
> Bass violated a Colorado law that says even unintentionally possessing explicit images of kids is akin to having child pornography. Even parents could be prosecuted under the broad language of the statute.
That's not gonna be a fun collision between technology and the legal system.
In order to understand Web3 culture, look into Professional Wrestling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe ). Web3 is fake/staged, but everyone participating in Web3 either knows this, doesn't know this, or pretends not to know this.
It's a bunch of bullshit, mixed with many slick ideas.
I believe in web3, but I also believe that art NFTs and crypto bros running grifter companies like MtGOX and FTX give it a bad rap.
Luckily, the ecosystem is now big enough that you can avoid that crap pretty easily.
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There's still an important distinction between "the semantic web" and "a bunch of cryptocurrency fuckery", both of which have been termed "Web 3" at times.
Web3 isn't about cryptocurrency, it's about owning your own identity instead of Google, Apple, Facebook.
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Web2: you stop paying a cloud provider, your data is gone. Web3: you stop paying a network, your data stays online. Either because it's permanent by default (blockchain, blockweave) or because people deem it interesting and pin it (IPFS) Seems like a fundamental improvement to me.
Web3: your data is gone once VCs stop incinerating money into Web3 startups.
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There's still an important distinction between "the semantic web" and "a bunch of cryptocurrency fuckery", both of which have been termed "Web 3" at times.
Web3 isn't about cryptocurrency, it's about owning your own identity instead of Google, Apple, Facebook.
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There's still an important distinction between "the semantic web" and "a bunch of cryptocurrency fuckery", both of which have been termed "Web 3" at times.
The distinction is that "the semantic web" went nowhere and "a bunch of crypto currency fuckery" has millions of users globally.
I don't consider gambling a good thing just because there are millions of gamblers. I feel the same about cryptocurrency.
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There's still an important distinction between "the semantic web" and "a bunch of cryptocurrency fuckery", both of which have been termed "Web 3" at times.
Web3 isn't about cryptocurrency, it's about owning your own identity instead of Google, Apple, Facebook.
You are free to think that, but most folks' use of the term relates strongly to cryptocurrency.
It's worth noting that the title here confuses "web3" with "web 3.0". It means "web3". Web3 is the crypto nonsense that the article talks about, which has almost nothing to do with the web. Web 3.0 is Tim Berners Lee's vision for a decentralized web: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee... I think it's an important distinction to make. Web 3.0 is noble in its vision and intentions, while web3…