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19 pointsghuntley12 comments

I don't get it. Am I supposed to be seeing this?

HTTP/2 301 date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 05:00:17 GMT content-type: text/html location: https://web3usecase.com/ x-origin-cache: HIT x-github-request-id: 7D7E:75C0:ACF10D:11A024E:62B7E81D accept-ranges: bytes via: 1.1 varnish age: 0 x-served-by: cache-ewr18156-EWR x-cache: MISS x-cache-hits: 0 x-timer: S1656219678.965954,VS0,VE10 vary: Accept-Encoding x-fastly-request-id: 74394431822253195ed94c2da75d9432c7d14c2f cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct" report-to: {"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v3?s=TswLS7rSYRizktyvP45asiCnLfqMN8iE1WQ8fVXZLPULAuFsXDkdcb%2FkMJqdg0zfrL1QeochucMtnReFO7eLnFqSQGC1GQVSszGgAGGKPbNDvI2Bl38uG9qa9U%2FtJtGWGjM%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800} nel: {"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800} server: cloudflare cf-ray: 7213625b39aa185d-EWR alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400

Not sure why it's sending you a 301 redirect, but you could add -L to follow it:

curl -L -I https://web3usecase.com

It's just sending a 404 meaning "Use Case Not Found" for "web 3".

This just feels like bullying.

I'm not a fan of web3. I'm generally skeptical of most tech fads. There have been plenty of them over the years. If I don't like the new thing I don't use it. This has paid dividends when things turn into vapor. It can be annoying when they stay around(xml).

What I don't do is aggressively campaign against other people's ideas. Let people try their wacky ideas. Offer constructive criticism.

The difference here is that many people involved in Web3 are scammers.

And they are specifically targeting people who are financially unsophisticated.

For example, Logan Paul when he promotes NFT projects to his young audience which he knows full well are rug pulls and will result in them losing their money.

The difference is that it kills the environment by using massive amounts of electricity. That criticism is fundamental: There is no viable "web3" offering not doing that.

You are actually wrong. Proof of stake blockchains consume much less. For instance on Tezos, transactions create less CO2 than sending an email (without an attachment). The environmental impact of email is colossal, let's criticize that for a minute ;)

You do realise what you have just said was complete nonsense?

So Algorand, Flow, Solana, Stellar, XRPL and Tezos are all killing the environment and using massive amounts of electricity?

Once again, fallen into the same absolutist trap like all the other 'angry' critics who will eventually realise that they are wasting their time trying to stop all of it.

What’s revolutionary about this brilliant piece of Web2 technology is that now you don’t need a human anymore to manually check if Web3 has any use cases. All you need is an HTTP client that reads status codes.

curl https://terminal.news

sorry but i'm not typing all that garbage at the beginning of the url into my terminal...i'm not a bazsh master who knows what it will do

% curl terminal.news

<!doctype html><html lang="en"> <title>Redirecting...</title> <h1>Redirecting...</h1> <p>You should be redirected automatically to the target URL: <a href="https://terminal.news/">https://terminal.news/</a>. If not, click the link.

add an https

Or -L to follow redirects

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