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Recommend? a community around web3.0/blockchain/decentralization to join

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Hi folks,

Can anyone recommend a good community of devs to join around blockchain/web3.0/decentralization? IE people willing to have deep debates about philosophies and shared interests.

IE I envision an IRC channel or Slack group where people are discussing the good crazy stuff.

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I created an blockchain education site: https://coursefriend.com/

I'm also working on a more general discussion / Q&A site for blockchain/decentralization topics that will launch soon. I am trying to scratch my own itch of wanting more interesting and informed online discussion/news on dApps and decentralized protocols. This stuff can be hard to grok so finding a good community is important.

I've made a subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DecentralizedWeb/

It didn't take off yet, but you're welcome to join)

Awesome, I also made a sub because I didn't see anything out there focused on more technical dev type stuff https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockchainDevs/

Here's one for (decentralised) meshnets: https://reddit.com/r/darknetmarkets.

As I recall, most darknet markets are just Tor hidden services, nothing decentralized about them.

Errrr, wrong link. It's reddit.com/r/darknetplan.

I like ethresear.ch for technical discussions about scaling etc on ethereum

What is "web3.0"?

Long story short, My understanding is that it is the idea that web apps would no longer charge for their services directly, but would generate revenue for their decentralized society of which they own a percentage of. Like a farmers co-op. The implications of this have created many new tools and libraries. But hey, take my words with a grain of salt, I am the guy lookin for others to chat with about the subject cause I’ve been in my cave for the past few years, I don’t really know what it means to other folks yet.

For more than a decade Tim Berners-Lee used Web 3.0 to mean the semantic Web, structured around linked open data, RDF, etc.

This subreddit may interest you - /r/ethdev .

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What is this?

Our goal has been to be super friendly and welcoming: https://gitter.im/amark/gun

We just passed 7K+ devs in the community, not all are on the channel, but everybody helps each other out. :)

I feel like your community could maybe have even more buzzwords, like cloud, Rust, or startup.

On a serious note, I suspect you think decentralization is a fad, and I’d be curious why you think that?

Decentralization comes and goes. Gnutella clients used to be the rage, and now YouTube and Netflix are kings. The cloud is the new mainframe. We will shift into distributed software then back to consolidated platforms, and the pendulum will keep moving.

It may. I’ll keep an eye out.

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