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Indeed, web3 should be decentralisation & P2P to move away from silos, not crypto bullshit.

Way back in 2009, Tim Berners-Lee declared Web 3.0 should be about linked data and the semantic web. https://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0427-web30-tbl/

If you ignore all the crypto grifters, it's indeed this.

I think it is doable, I mean, rewriting it for Web3 stacks. But why bother? It works as is.

I read the parent comment differently.

I believe the point is that Popcorn Time is/was a shining example of the decentralized web, to the point that it accomplished some of what “web3” claims it is trying to achieve (for a specific set of use cases), and therefore is “more web3 than crypto”.

Retooling on a “web3 stack” would be pointless, because it is already accomplishing its goal without that stack.

Agreed!