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Honestly...... 3.0 is actually dead on arrival thanks to the proliferation of "Web3" the brand damage is done and "3.0" should find a new name ASAP.

• mkl95 4y ago
  Imo Web 3.0 is Webtransport / Webassembly / WebGPU. But Web 2.0+ may be a more fitting name.
  • rhn_mk1 4y ago
    I was thinking that web 3 would be fitting for ActivityPub, WebTorrent, Namecoin and IPFS.
    • smoldesu 4y ago
      No? ActivityPub is a protocol over HTTP - that's solidly last-gen. IPFS is caught between iterations but IMO is solidly Web2, and WebTorrent/Namecoin are abstractions over pre-existing technology. I think that's appropriate for a Web2.1 starter-pack, maybe.
      • rhn_mk1 4y ago
        What's next-gen is the federation, as opposed to the centralization of the current-gen. HTTP has nothing to do with it, even the "semantic 3.0" didn't ditch it.
        • smoldesu 4y ago
          That's not next-gen. Federation has existed since the 90s in the form of P2P trackers and other networking paradigms. HTTP has everything to do with it because Mastodon is built on a client-server model (not a peer-to-peer one) which is the textbook definition of a Web2 network.
          • rhn_mk1 4y ago
            When web 2.0 entered the picture, it didn't bring in anything new either, but represented a different focus. I think my proposal makes sense as "3.0" because similarly, there's not much new except a new focus in it.
  • angry_moose 4y ago
    Wikipedia uses Semantic Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web They really don't even distinguish between Web3/3.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3