Too bad HN absolutely loathes crypto in general, because I do see a glimmer of hope in the wild wild West that is web 3
> Yeah, fuck that. Fuck blockchain. Fuck Meta. Fuck Zuck the schmuck. That’s all I have to say about that.
To expand upon this, I have yet to see a single thing a blockchain solves other than moving money around (usually from the scammed to the scammer). Web 3.0 is doubling down on what made Web 2.0 so shit.
Web 3 is nothing like that.
There's plenty of "no cookie notices, no ads, no dark patterns" on the normal web. My guess (from zero experience) is that there's more of it on the "web 2.0". There's just lots of other junk also.