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⬐ hatenberg

It’s a manufactured play to create a new regulatory space by tech companies and investors trying to slink out of the regulatory noose tightening of their existing ventures.

The standard answer when people ask ‘so, how are you handling identity”, now has become ‘oh the community does’ … it’s raw unadulterated bullshit and companies like Meta enthusiastically embracing the supposed technology to bring deliverance from the yore of big tech should be all the answers one needs.

⬐ bfung

fyi, Molly White is the creator of https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

⬐ noman-land

Molly is awesome. I think p2p tech and encryption are really neat and potentially revolutionary, but I hate the scammers and bullshitters that have glommed onto the space like parasites. Molly is able to seemingly effortlessly cut directly through bullshit and speak to the core of projects. I'd really love to see her posting about some positive findings she comes across in "web3". Like she said, web3 will happen, it's just about what form it will take.

⬐ jaredcwhite

Yes.

⬐ readonthegoapp

yes.

only thing is, too many people are trying to loop in potentially useful technologies with web3 - like ar, vr, ai, etc.

⬐ tchock23

Exactly. I worry good emerging tech will get a bad rep as a result of Web3 shills trying to lump them in with their ‘product’ to pump their crypto holdings.

⬐ imranq

100% agree. Too often we hype up technologies and try to force fit problems to them.

⬐ chinabot

Waiting for Web 4.0 Myself.

⬐ 3np

Jack will beat that with Web 5, supposedly.

⬐ pkrumins

Web3 is quickly replacing Web2 and it’s clear that Web3 is the new future web standard. Everything should be on a blockchain and monetized via NFT. No exceptions.

⬐ busydevman

100% yes

⬐ popilewiz

None

⬐ LarsDu88

You know what's really stupid? Web 3.0 was originally the "semantic web" - an effort to make the web machine readable. The term was co-opted by crypto pumpers and dumpers and now has lost all meaning.

⬐ elkos

the Semantic web was a pretty interesting set of ideas that really intrigued me, to which extent has the industry adopted such concepts?

⬐ spookie

Take a look at Microformats2, used extensively on the Fediverse (Mastodon, for example).

⬐ nextaccountic

Twitter and Facebook use semantic tags to extract information for cards https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/c... also Google etc.

Unfortunately, at least in Twitter's case, the markup is twitter-specific instead of being standardized. Which is the thing that the semantic web ppl was trying to avoid.

... but another point of view is that those cards (specially in Google's case) rip off websites by providing the website information without granting the web side page views (and ads). So, some publishers have little incentive to make it easier for third party apps to use their data. (but people do scrape anyway)

i figure it's terrible for people and the planet, so will stick around way too long.

as for crpyto, as long as it helps oligarchs and less successful criminals to continue criming, it will stick around.

i watched this video earlier and thought it was too generous to web3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsllEF7w_g

i rarely agree with libertarians, but this one article i read yesterday sounded reasonable -- in short, the super-high growth era of high tech is over:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581828

it reminds a bit of what some physics-knowledgeable people are saying -- modern day physics is basically at a natural human limit of sorts -- progress is going to be very slow from here on out.

i think there are all sorts of fun and awesome tech things we can do, but for various reasons - state capitalism/war/US hegemony, and others - we choose not to do them. instead, we do war tech, and the VCs are left to figure out which publicly-developed technologies they can most effectively privatize for profit - thus, largely useless, at best, tech like 'web3'.