Convince me that Web3 is the worst

web3 is the worst... because web0 is the best! :-D

Well look, now that the crypto market is down, I'm not hearing web3 anymore. Wait til we enter a multi year bear market haha

Web3 is the latest buzz and there is a very low chance that web3 can be huge. But I really want to succeed and whatever happens in future we can only wait. It's all in the hands of tech experts…. Quick Vashikaran Mantra

There's a great new video out on this by Folding Ideas! Check it out:

I believe Web3 is great on paper. I just think that it's just hype because other than "let's stick it to the man", there's not a single actual use case of why we should just give up on the current infrastructure of the Web in favour of Web3.

As developers we always advocate for "let's make our users happy no matter what the stack is", and usually they won't give a damn whether their app is on a server or stuck on a blockchain.

Sure it made some people some money and sure the Twitter bubble swoons every time Web3 is mentioned, but that's about it.

If you can find one, just one actual use case that is not possible using the current web, then we'll talk.

in my opinion web 3 should have nothing to do with blockchain. with that I do not want to degrade the blockchain technology. but i thing blockchain is something that will at least for some part live on the web3.

in my opinion web3 will be defined by new possibilities enabled by http3. web video streaming for more applications, not only few giant companies or through few expensive services (not complaining about their great services that are otherwise very hard to implement with WebRTC and turn servers). Also games and simulations with more interactions and faster ping, (more than 8 people playing snake against eachother in realtime).

again, nothing to coplain about companies building great solutions, the possibilities of blockchain a
or a quick and fun round of snake with friends.

For news: web3isgoinggreat.com/

For analysis: gist.github.com/sdiehl/7706ef44d95...

I have yet to meet someone who thinks these database techniques are brilliant that also hasn't spent actual currency on speculation or use them for drug purchases.

To quote Narottam04

The web3 concept aims to create a decentralized, but secure, internet in which people can securely exchange money and information, without the need for middlemen or big tech companies.

Except that the whole eco-system is centralised, requires big tech companies, and is insecure.

Let me share from a blog post by someone who dipped their toe in:

So as an experiment, I made an NFT that changes based on who is looking at it, since the web server that serves the image can choose to serve different images based on the IP or User Agent of the requester. For example, it looked one way on OpenSea, another way on Rarible, but when you buy it and view it from your crypto wallet, it will always display as a large 💩 emoji. What you bid on isn’t what you get. There’s nothing unusual about this NFT, it’s how the NFT specifications are built. Many of the highest priced NFTs could turn into 💩 emoji at any time; I just made it explicit.

After a few days, without warning or explanation, the NFT I made was removed from OpenSea (an NFT marketplace):

The takedown suggests that I violated some Term Of Service, but after reading the terms, I don’t see any that prohibit an NFT which changes based on where it is being looked at from, and I was openly describing it that way.

What I found most interesting, though, is that after OpenSea removed my NFT, it also no longer appeared in any crypto wallet on my device. This is web3, though, how is that possible?

(I recommend reading the whole thing, it's very good.)

Not the worst, but not the best as well