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I don't think that's what web3 is, that's just one direction some are taking it. Web3 is a move away from centralized platforms to ones which are either decentralized or more directly controlled by users (self-hosted, federated).

> Like anything blockchain there is no real solution for how to handle records becoming stale over time without a central authority that manages disputes.

I don't understand this part. In pretty much every decentralized name system I've seen a user pays to own a name for a period of time, there's no stale records.

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"Web3" has been fully co-opted to be blockchain related.

Any former meaning is now drowned out by that definition, whether you like it or not.

> Any former meaning is now drowned out by that definition, whether you like it or not.

Random pronouncements on HN don't make it true. If you want to restrict your understanding of the term, by all means do so. But don't expect others to follow suit.

Ok. We'll see where this end up.

I hate it too but it feels too late to turn back the tide.

You might be right. But just like crypto bros co-opted the term, it could very well be co-opted again by whatever tech seems like the next big thing after "everything is blockchain" fades into obscurity

I suspect the term will have become tainted before that happens. "Metaverse" has turned into hollow nonsense within the last few months.

But what do I know? I'm still sore that "content creator" now means "social media person" rather than "someone who creates content".

We can have self-hosted, federated web sites with Web 1.0 technology.

I used to use this obscure little piece of software for that called Apache. Maybe y'all have heard of it. Though I think it's getting some competition from this unknown little project called nginx. Really looking forward to that stuff becoming mainstream, it'll be revolutionary.

TCP/IP is going to be wild.

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