But, aren't you folks web2?
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But, aren't you folks web2?
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Re: But, aren't you folks web2?
#2As someone who has worked within this industry, I absolutely hate these terms. Throwing things on a blockchain is a mile backwards for most use cases.
Re: But, aren't you folks web2?
#3As someone who has worked within this industry, I absolutely hate these terms. Throwing things on a blockchain is a mile backwards for most use cases.
> Throwing things on a blockchain is a mile backwards for most use cases.
But the buzzwords. Think about the buzzwords.
Re: But, aren't you folks web2?
#4For the first time my anger over crypto moves into genuine concern.
Is an entire generation of young people experiencing a kind of "pokemonisation" of crypto well into early adulthood?
In other words, is a generation of 20-somethings wasting the better part of that decade on this tech, in these scams?
If so, this feels new (?). We're not talking about the chain-letter crazes of the 20s/30s, the housewife pyramid schemes of the 60/70s, the ponzi schemes of traditional finance.
We're talking about a "pyrimidization" of technical skill acquisition itself, wherein we dont teach classical mechanics -- that's too "physics2" -- but crypto-mechanics which solves no problems of the prior, and charges.
If this is happening the issues around crypto are perhaps much more severe than I, at least, initially thought. Yes, $100bn will be lost in a vareity of scams deposited, in the end, into the accounts of charlatans, children and gurus. BUT, meh, so it goes.
But a cultural take-over of the technical skill space by a crypto religion is far more series and needs addressing ASAP. Someone needs to explain to the developing generation that this isnt the future.
Re: But, aren't you folks web2?
#5This blog post already puts way more thought into whatever "web3" is than web3 advocates do. Everything must be web3 because web3 is cool, it's the future, it's got electrolytes, it's what plants crave. It's a meaningless cargo cult.
Re: But, aren't you folks web2?
#6I'm in the web3 space for one year now, after working in "web2" for over 10 years.
My impression of it is that people that didn't ride the rollercoaster of the dot-com era see it as their chance to get something similar.
Everything is a bit more chaotic and you get better payment than in similar "web2" jobs.
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#7>> "Now, web3 is a broad wildcard term that seems to revolve around a large number of concepts including decentralisation, self-sovereignty, privacy, free speech, censorship, security, BigTech, BigGov, democracy, human rights[3], monetisation, royalties, art, trust, digital rights, ownership, assets, property, proofs, cryptography, wallets … all somehow connected to a blockchain. One would be hard pressed to think of another technology term that refers to so many diverse, deeply interesting concepts."
Compare to web 2.0 which simply referred to moving from pages that needed an entirely new load to do anything to pages that updated dynamically with a newly-standardized piece of functionality. Web3 has been overloaded in the same way most fake medicines have been. Web3 is essential oils for gullible nerds.
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#8Having a web3 startup is just as inane as having a mongodb startup. Those technologies don‘t make anything possible that wasn‘t possible before.
In any case: We are talking about this buzzwords for ~8 years now. Is there a list of useful web3 offerings by now? Any heavy hitters, killer applications? Anything besides wacky money making schemes like virtual sneakers?
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#9> web3 is a broad wildcard term that seems to revolve around a large number of concepts including decentralisation, self-sovereignty, privacy, free speech, censorship, security, BigTech, BigGov, democracy, human rights
That would cover Mastodon, right?
And mastodon is not web3, in fact doesn't want to be associated with the term "web3", at all.
Re: But, aren't you folks web2?
#10For the first time my anger over crypto moves into genuine concern. Is an entire generation of young people experiencing a kind of "pokemonisation" of crypto well into early adulthood? In other words, is a generation of 20-somethings wasting the better part of that decade on this tech, in these scams? If so, this feels new (?). We're not talking about the chain-letter crazes of the 20s/30s, the housewife pyramid sche…
When I graduated, mobile was the big thing.
That's old now.
So, what to do to make a name for you?
What big new field is there where you don't have to compete with people that have 10 times the experience than you?
Independently of what you think web3 might solve or doesn't solve, it's still just programming. Someone learning cryptography and coding will get a job in other places.