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Such bs. People like to be the inventor of new terms... "web3" has *NOTHING* to do with 'web'. But hey, web2.0 was a blast in VC world.

If anything, web3 is more like the old internet without the web.. Distributed as in, everybody has a server in their pocket. It's your data, and you decide who has access to it.

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> Distributed as in, everybody has a server in their pocket. It's your data, and you decide who has access to it.

That sounds nice. But what I read, web3 is intimitaley related to blockchains. I doubt that blockchains are necessary to obtain decentralisation and data ownership.

Well, people misuse this globally accessible permanent persistent database, which is controlled by static private keys to store data which is meant to be private, semi-private or and data which is supposed to be public for the time being.

> "It's your data, and you decide who has access to it. "

Sure, except everybody has access to read the blockchain.

Exactly one of my points.

I thought your point was that you can choose who has access to your data, which is the opposite of what I've just told you?

Ohh. You actually meant that that’s what people want.

I thought it was sarcasm

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