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Ask HN: Will Web3 ever become mainstream?
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Re: Ask HN: Will Web3 ever become mainstream?
#13I don't think so. There have been billions of dollars flowing to this industry and till now nothing came out that is close to being useful for the mainstream
I’ve never seen something nobody really wants pushed this hard with this much money. It’s truly amazing.
Re: Ask HN: Will Web3 ever become mainstream?
#14No. People don’t see the value in ‘decentralization’, their motto is something like ‘give me convenience or give me death’. This commercial, for the first personal computer that didn’t come with any programming tools, reveals the true attitude of the masses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI (Note the guy talking in the screen is a blockhead as I see it.)
Web3 isn’t decentralized the way most people use it. Most NfTs are just URLs. Like most things in crypto it’s just a scam.
The most successful current decentralized systems are probably BitTorrent and Mastodon. BitTorrent arose due to heavy handed copyright enforcement and Mastodon got popular in response to the Musk takeover of Twitter. In both cases these are examples of problems decentralization solves.
If the political situation continues to deteriorate I could see decentralization becoming more popular.