This is absolutely spot-on, and I think a lot of HN will agree with you here…
…which makes it all the more baffling why many on HN decry decentralization and web3 as scam artistry.
…which makes it all the more baffling why many on HN decry decentralization and web3 as scam artistry.
Because "web3" is a scam. Claiming to solve this problem is not the same thing as solving it or solving it well.
See: The Wright Brothers.
Even in web3 there will be a similar cycle. In fact we are already seeing this.
good example: git, fully decentralized. Github: centralized git
and of course web3 git: own a NFT of that specific revision.
Fixed that for you. NFTs don't store actual data, just links to them.
And having an NFT with a link to something really brings nothing to the table when talking about link rot.
All of the things GP mentioned were just open, free, ways to communicate without attachments. This is why they have been beautiful and exciting and often of higher quality and honesty.
"web3", by the bulk of use, is a pile of crypto advocacy.
I want decentralization. I don't want web3. They're not the same. (Even if at one point they were.)
The methods of decentralization already exist and would be known to people that frequent this forum.
"Web3" is a marketing term created by venture capitalists that want to fuse a tokenization layer to it from which they can extract perpetual payments.