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Every time web3 is mentioned, a sizeable portion of HackerNews goes into "old man shouting at clouds" mode and logic seems to go out the window. Noone who has

Every time web3 is mentioned, a sizeable portion of HackerNews goes into "old man shouting at clouds" mode and logic seems to go out the window. Noone who has any interest in web3 is going to change their minds based on strawman sloganeering arguments like those presented in this article, and it's hard to imagine someone who is currently undecided being persuaded when the very first arguments presented are as weak as 1)"There are projects with this thing called 'quadratic voting' that I don't like" 2)"You don't need cryptocurrency to be decentralized" 3)"If it was good why would FB and Twitter allow it?"

Karrot_Kream 5y ago
It's okay, if Stephen Diehl's 18 (!) [1] anti-crypto blog posts didn't convince you, I'm sure this will be the one. [1]: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog.html https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog.html
- seanhunter 5y ago
  Yeah I've read a bunch of those and if nothing else they actually make some points that need to be discussed. I think things like pointless and excessive energy use, "don't you just need a database really", "doesn't decentralized storage kind of suck in lots of important ways" are much more substantive criticisms that web3 projects need to address than "I disagree with how some projects choose to organize voting", which is nothing more than a bottomless bikeshed and could be made validly made about "pre-web3" projects as well. For example, I can remember Debian for example having "lively debates" about its voting system inside and outside the community since at least as far back as 2000. I don't think anyone outside that project has any right to an opinion about how Debian want to arrange their voting and I feel the same way about every weird-ass token-voting system some web3 project wants to put in place.
- maccolgan 5y ago
  Not only that, somehow his "Tech Blog" and "Blog" are two separate things, but every single blog post in the "Blog" section is about cryptocurrencies.

Karrot_Kream 5y ago

It's okay, if Stephen Diehl's 18 (!) [1] anti-crypto blog posts didn't convince you, I'm sure this will be the one. [1]: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog.html https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog.html

seanhunter 5y ago
Yeah I've read a bunch of those and if nothing else they actually make some points that need to be discussed. I think things like pointless and excessive energy use, "don't you just need a database really", "doesn't decentralized storage kind of suck in lots of important ways" are much more substantive criticisms that web3 projects need to address than "I disagree with how some projects choose to organize voting", which is nothing more than a bottomless bikeshed and could be made validly made about "pre-web3" projects as well. For example, I can remember Debian for example having "lively debates" about its voting system inside and outside the community since at least as far back as 2000. I don't think anyone outside that project has any right to an opinion about how Debian want to arrange their voting and I feel the same way about every weird-ass token-voting system some web3 project wants to put in place.
maccolgan 5y ago
Not only that, somehow his "Tech Blog" and "Blog" are two separate things, but every single blog post in the "Blog" section is about cryptocurrencies.