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web4, also known as web1.0 in the past.

• selfhoster11 5y ago
  There is a marked difference. Web 1.0 was still a very small community, and the importance of moderation and decentralisation was seen as lower. If we want to stay alive against megacorps and not get ripped apart from the inside while still facilitating large numbers of users, it helps to design these priorities in from the beginning. On a more technical level, Web1.0 was not as optionally capable as Web4 may be. Crypto strength vs TLS vs no encryption, rich documents vs Markdown vs no formatting, persistence vs not, these are all the choices we can make now. Whereas in Web1.0 you had to be ascetic, and in Web2.x you had to be resplendent, in Web4 you can choose your own adventure.