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The current state of web3 reminds me of people building new game engines well before any reasonable game could be built on the platform. This happened a lot in
by ChicagoDave 5y ago
The current state of web3 reminds me of people building new game engines well before any reasonable game could be built on the platform. This happened a lot in the 90's/2000's in the Interactive Fiction community. Smart people would find IF, play a bunch of games, build a game or two, then decide the existing platforms "didn't fit their style or the kinds of features they wanted" and start discussing how _they_ would do it differently.
None of those platforms ever saw the light of day. The few platforms that _did_ see success were the ones that were built quietly, the platform designer also became its first author and created a viable, interesting game in the platform to prove its value.
I think the proponents of web3 need to stop marketing/pushing it and just go build something. If/when you have something clearly viable, then the rest of us will take a more serious look at what you've invented.
And your users/customers can't just be crypto adherents. That's always going to be a limited subset of Internet users. You have to build something _easy to access_ with _clear benefits_.
Until then, it's just more vaporware.
- kinnth 5y agoA lot of them are happening right now. The most interesting thing about Web3 is just how much stuff is being built. Really innovative financial models, huge DAO that are beginning to work, NFT communities that actually help people. It's happening right now, just join the discords.
- ChicagoDave 5y agoDiscord is a non-starter for wider usage. List any usage that goes beyond crypto users. No one cares about DAO's or NFT's (scam). Give us a real world application that millions of non-crypto users would benefit from?
- dmitriid 5y ago> The most interesting thing about Web3 is just how much stuff is being built The amount of stuff being built is really not interesting. > Really innovative financial models None of those financial models are innovative > NFT communities that actually help people. Yeah, right. > It's happening right now, just join the discords. Yup. The regular cultist words. "Just google it"
- okbye 5y agoMind sharing which discords to follow?
- lghh 5y agoIsn't it funny that all of these conversations around federated data are happening on discord? I'd love it if Discord was indexed by search engines so I didn't have to fight to find that conversations that I am interested in.
- cblconfederate 5y agoThe tech is so open that we need exclusivity clubs
- Rapzid 5y agoIsn't it all always happening right now?
- ekanes 5y agoAny discords you would recommend? Interested in DAOs creating real value, not arguing about NFTs vs jpegs. :D Thanks!
- cblconfederate 5y ago> It's happening right now, just join the discords. This phrase is comical. Decentralization is happening, join us in centralizing
- sergiomattei 5y agoThis comment is akin to saying “you use an iPhone, therefore you can’t hate capitalism” One can form part of the status quo while building a better future.
- FireInsight 5y agoIt's not that the discords and the discussions there shouldn't exist at all, but surely you could get those people who actually know about the tech have those discussions on a platform that better suits.