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That might as well be web3 from where I'm sitting: web3 is trying to solve a problem most people don't have: they don't care about privacy or leaks even when th
by axegon_ 5y ago
That might as well be web3 from where I'm sitting: web3 is trying to solve a problem most people don't have: they don't care about privacy or leaks even when they happen. Those of us lurking on HN maybe, but to everyone else this is a completely normal phenomenon, the same way the sun rises from the east.
- selfhoster11 5y agoWeb3 is a co-opted term, much like cryptobros co-opted the term "crypto" from the cryptography community. We need to choose a different term, and Web4 is not a bad one.
- axegon_ 5y agoI'm aware. What I'm trying to say is that neither 3 or 4 will become mainstream and will only become a party house for a few wildly optimistic and wildly diluted individuals, that is the evangelists and those believing that this will be the next big thing and will make them billionaires because they were the early adopters. We've seen that way too many times already.
- dredmorbius 5y agoWhat you're witnessing, and participating in, is the epistemic and rhetorical battle over that future.
- selfhoster11 5y agoI'm lending my own support to the term "Web4". I want to see this future happen, and something had to compete with "Web3" semantically. I might as well help.