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Let's assume that Ethereum gets properly sharded, and web3 solves all these technical challenges somehow, because that's supposedly where Ethereum is headed. W

Let's assume that Ethereum gets properly sharded, and web3 solves all these technical challenges somehow, because that's supposedly where Ethereum is headed. Why would I as a user prefer Twitter or prefer web3 decentralized microblogging? With Twitter, even with minimal gate keeping, I still get a spam/scam message only once every month or so. But minimal gatekeeping is soooooo much better than email, where I get so much spam email that it has made the service worthless without spam filtering, which has an error rate for finding spam.I literally only read my personal email messages once every week or so because it's such a chore to get through all the craft spam, much of it from places where I once bought a single item. So as a programmer and creator, sure, you prefer the ability to not be locked out. But as a user of Twitter, I vastly prefer all those programmers being locked from access. It's the only thing that keeps it sane and almost-useful. One application I recently heard of that might be relevant: using wallets as crypto for the average person, finally allowing more secure and better website login. If everybody has wallet, it might finally solve the problem of scattered passwords everywhere for every site, with many users reusing site password.

shagie 5y ago
> Why would I as a user prefer Twitter or prefer web3 decentralized microblogging? I'm even going to ask "why do you need web3 for decentralized microblogging?" What problem does this future tech solve that Mastodon does not currently solve? What is the current solution lacking and is easier to solve in a hypothetical web3 world? -- The "use wallet for login" I contend has an even bigger problem than "reuse the same password" for the average person. Losing a device with a wallet (e.g. phone) becomes an even bigger issue. Wallet stealing scripts/malware would compromise even more of a person's identity. Additional difficulties in being able to recover an account if a person loses access to their wallet (e.g. drive failure). I believe that existing password management systems do a better job of this for the average person and it would be better to have people use those than trying to get everyone to have a crypto wallet. That has the added advantage that password management systems work wherever there's a password rather than a mishmash of "this site uses this wallet" and some sites will never get to the point of using a wallet for account management (compare how many have a 'login with apple' even though that's been around for a while and is pushed by Big Tech).

shagie 5y ago

> Why would I as a user prefer Twitter or prefer web3 decentralized microblogging? I'm even going to ask "why do you need web3 for decentralized microblogging?" What problem does this future tech solve that Mastodon does not currently solve? What is the current solution lacking and is easier to solve in a hypothetical web3 world? -- The "use wallet for login" I contend has an even bigger problem than "reuse the same password" for the average person. Losing a device with a wallet (e.g. phone) becomes an even bigger issue. Wallet stealing scripts/malware would compromise even more of a person's identity. Additional difficulties in being able to recover an account if a person loses access to their wallet (e.g. drive failure). I believe that existing password management systems do a better job of this for the average person and it would be better to have people use those than trying to get everyone to have a crypto wallet. That has the added advantage that password management systems work wherever there's a password rather than a mishmash of "this site uses this wallet" and some sites will never get to the point of using a wallet for account management (compare how many have a 'login with apple' even though that's been around for a while and is pushed by Big Tech).