OpenSea was a YCombinator-incubated and promoted company. Ironic that you say HN downvotes it. It is quintessentially that VC-backed Web2 play that may as well

OpenSea was a YCombinator-incubated and promoted company. Ironic that you say HN downvotes it. It is quintessentially that VC-backed Web2 play that may as well cut out the web3 entirely since all wallets just use their APIs. They may as well BE the platform for NFTs. And according to you, that would be an improvement over the current space! That’s a great example actually, it’s very telling that you’re calling out a company that is literally the epitome of VC backed startups trying to turn Web3 into Web2 again, and call it “the bad decentralization”. Sure — the vast majority in the NFT space are looking for a viable alternative to OpenSea exactly BECAUSE it’s that. Whereas IPFS and BitTorrent were explicitly started as decentralized alternatives with no central point of failure (the latter as a response to the shutdown of Napster). And then they went ahead and created FileCoin and BTT to pay for things in this decentralized ecosystem. So puh-leeze, you Web2 maxis haven’t been able to even produce good open source alternatives to the Big Tech that totally captured everything in your space. And Web3 guys have captured a lot more momentum and people. And you don’t get to say that FileCoin and BTT aren’t Web3, and that Web3 is whatever you don’t like. Sure, Web3 was also captured by greed (of the early speculators who finally got to play VC) which is why we need Web4 and Web5. Things evolve. Web2 and Bitcoin maxis want things to stay the same as they were 12 years ago. But the world is moving on. Just wait the next few years as most Web2 things you know (badges, communities) go decentralized (NFTs and DAOs). Metaverse, Apple Glass and then neuralink etc. thankfully we won’t have corporate-controlled metaverses be the only solution, that would be even more dystopian than today’s Big Tech. You’d literally be the Borg. But hey, I guess you LIKE to be locked into AWS for their totally centralized and overpriced data centers (which they call “the cloud” to evoke feelings of decentralized Internet) and believe that’s the only way you can be compliant with regulations of your centralized governments. Where actually, end-to-end encryption and resilience can increasingly be found in decentralized systems, and credit cards with their PCI compliance are replaced with self-custodied private keys and cryptocurrency.