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1. How about we stop calling this NFT thing Web3? Isn't it in its current form at least an insult to both the original web and web2 (and with that I mean what i
by eitland 5y ago
1. How about we stop calling this NFT thing Web3? Isn't it in its current form at least an insult to both the original web and web2 (and with that I mean what it was thought of back when we talked about it: interactive pages leading to user generated conten: everything from comments to ratings to tagging/folksonomy etc)
Shouldn't Web3 be reserved for something important and web related, not used to hype up the current crypto rush which seems to be mostly scams?
To be fair and honest I should note that I was wrong about the web when it was introduced around here when I was an early teenager and I won't get caught in that mistake again so I assume something useful will come out of todays crypto hype. (Again no, I refuse to call it web3.)
Although to be fair to teenage self what I doubted most was the ads about the web and in that regard I was mostly right. And if someone comes around 25 years from now and points to this comment: No, I'm not saying distributed crypto systems aren't useful, only that the current ones are deeply flawed: Some NFTs at this point is just a URL reference to another webserver that can be taken offline at any point! Others are run by commercial companies in ways that mean they can disappear at a whim. There is no permanent ownership in most of todays systems.
2. For some reason people around here think that if something doesn't have a significant percentage of the users it doesn't matter. So since less than 5 or even less than 1 percent self host it doesn't matter. Wrong! Just remember: at some point Google had less than 1% of the worlds searches. Linux was a thing for research communities and nerdy teenagers.
It takes just a few to keep the seeds of knowledge and passion alive and if and when the time comes it suddenly breaks through in one form or another.