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I'm fairly new to blogging but I thought I should just start writing. Please let me know what you think. If you liked this article, you may like the previous.

Please don't buy into the idea that you can write a worthwhile blog post about 'Web3' by telling us how confused you are. If that was my blog post I'd delete it.

(Simply by using the term 'Web3' in sequence with 'Web 2.0' and ignoring that the W3C was using the term 'Web 3.0' 10 years ago shows that you haven't been paying attention and don't have an informed opinion to share. Alternately you're qualified to be the annoying salesperson who points out the 'confusion' of anybody who walks into an audiophile store... Except for the fact that nobody has walked into an audiophile store for 20 years because we don't want to see that salesperson.)

Hey I didn’t mean to show confusion when I was writing. I more meant to write this article as exploratory. When I say Web X.0, I am referring to an era of the internet. I refer to Web 3.0 as the new emergent era with decentralized systems. I appreciate your feedback and I understand I’m not the most qualified to speak on internet history.

There is a fad since the pandemic of people looking for a debate when there really isn’t one, a controversy when there isn’t one.

People like that for instance want to have a discussion going on all the time about ivermectin, they don’t really care if it is effective against COVID-19 but they feel powerful when they can get something on the agenda and keep other things off.

Journalism about blockheads has gotten this way. You even see articles in the New York Times that say things like ‘I’m not sure if there really is anything here but when great minds like Paris Hilton and Will Smith are buying into Bored Ape Yacht Club I can’t just ignore this.’

I suggest next time you write a blog ask ‘Do I have something to say or am I just afraid of missing out?’

I think it's not a bad article, especially for someone new to blogging. You don't claim to have all the answers, and that's okay. The article was a good length, and well presented, without any unnecessary JavaScript or adverts.

> On the other hand there is more permanency than previously on Web 2.0.

Is that necessarily the case with Web 3.0? Certainly any data stored on-chain is likely to be more permanent, in practice, than in current architectures, but the on-chain data might just be a hash, or possibly even a zero knowledge proof.

> These systems enable anyone to host a node in the network and participate the in decentralization.

You might want to fix that typo.

Hey thanks for the feedback! What I meant by the first statement was that these systems are immutable. For example, IPFS stores any files permanently and they can’t be modified.

Thanks for spotting the typo!

> IPFS stores any files permanently and they can’t be modified.

You may be interested to learn about its Mutable File System[0] then, and about federalist[1] which uses decentralized mutable torrents (BEP 46).

[0] https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/file-systems/

[1] https://github.com/publiusfederalist/federalist

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