Just for the fun of it, I want to hear everyone's arguments for why Web3 is not, or should not be the future.
In case you need a better understanding of what we're talking about here:
This shouldn't be personal, or aggressive. Keep it light, and give me your argument.
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Haven't look into Web3 that deep yet, but...
This tweet is probably a great start 😀
it runs on computers
Oh shit
This website puts in a lot of legwork on the topic: web3isgoinggreat.com/
I read it and now I'm shivering in terror. I'm not sure what's scarier: that minors pull off multimillion scams or that there are parents investing college funds in NFT.
So I feel it's important to give whoever wants to click that link a fair warning:
Unless it has squirrels not touching it.
I'm not really for or against it but I would say its being marketed wrong.
The web is a system on the internet.
Web2.0 was a new way for applications on the web to work, namely AJAX.
Web3 is a new place to put the web, but still runs Web2.0 applications.
My understanding is Web3 is a decentralised internet using block chain to encrypt peer to peer traffic. A new internet of sorts but, of course, this needs to sit on the existing internet until it reaches critical mass.
In my opinion Web3 will never reach critical mass but I've been wrong before and I have no doubt I'll be wrong again 😅.
This! I've heard a lot of web3 advocates say things like "web2 was all about centralization!", but honestly all I remember about that era was the transition to rounded corners and AJAX. 😂
Honestly, the branding of "Web3" is kind of a co-opting of language which could be applied to any number of trends.
If I'm remembering correctly, Web2 was the labeling of something that was clearly happening and didn't need the massive hype. Beyond the misaligned incentives for creating hype, in general the clever adoption of this term is one of the weirdest things.
Early 2000s: The web is starting to be used for so much more than just static web pages, let's normalize a word to describe this trend.
Early 2020s: Let's create a word to help bring hype to a trend which may or may not happen.
Don't forgot box-shadows. That was an important milestone.
Rounded corners 👐
I just forgive that Web 1.0 gave us Blink.
What was the Web2 equivalent for NFTs?
domain name squatting?
SEO perhaps?
Domain name squatting, that's a good one!
The problem with web3 is that it works through web2.
Web3 is a complete decentralization and now this goal has not been achieved.
Web3 =
[DApp (interface) + blockchain (database)]Now it works like this:
DApp (interface) + JSON-RPC (web2) + blockchain (database)But this will be fixed soon, we need to ensure that requests from users are sent immediately to validators/miners from the users' browser. Then we will remove web2 from this chain and achieve full decentralization.
I think the Brave browser should be the first to reach this goal, since they also embed the crypto wallet and IPFS by default.
This (long) read pretty much nails it - tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
I just skimmed it, but that was a fantastic overview of the space.
It will not happen in the near future because it will be created by human, and human, not all, but some, strive for power. That is in our nature.
So while human has any possible control over the system it will be impossible to launch something truly decentralized, that is an utopia.