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I'd have thought that web3 would be seen as a positive thing, since it's a lot about decentralisation, and taking back privacy & ownership of data. Is crypto why it's considered blasphemous?

If anything, web2.0 has seen rampant abuse of privacy, that is slowly being reigned in.

I mean, in terms of use... Name all the decentralized networks that the general public is aware of? Mastadon roughly 1 million active users, at a time when musk has let Xitter shit the bed to drop... to like 200 million users.
Meanwhile there's a bitcoin option on every ATM I go to in every gas station. Fact is if you ask around the table at thanksgiving, unless you have a very nerdy family.. odds are no one will be familiar with any web 3 items you name, other than crypto... and largely crypto will mostly only be known for it's worse applications. A speculative gambling investment that is popular to use to buy illegal goods with.
- Right, I suppose if you asked 100 people about web3, crypto would likely be the top answer atm.

I'm sure glad I knew what Web 3.0 was and totally didn't have to read this Wikipedia article.

Thanks for linking to the wiki page. Now I know what I don't need to read since I also knew exactly what Web 3.0 was.
- how'bout web4?

There was no Web 2.0.

It just started going backwards racing to 0.

Web 2.0 was good though. It signified the change from the "original" web mostly being publishers running their own individual sites to user-generated content (social media, photo and video sharing sites, forums, wikis, etc) with some level of interoperability between sites.
- The switch from hosting your own sites to instead having a presence on centralized oligopoly sites is the worst thing that ever happened to the internet.

Guys Lemmy itself is web3. Web3 is about decentralization. Don't get fooled by those claiming decentralization implies blockchain, Lemmy is doing fine without it

No idea why you were downvoted. You're right about decentralization. It's just there's no obvious way to become a billionaire without adding a blockchain scam to decentralization. :(

Nothing to talk about. Nothing happened. Who told you there was a "web 3"?! They're liars!

EVERYONE WAS ON HOLIDAY!
- Hey, is that a beer hall?

To me, while the crypto markets are a form of web3, it's still following the central idea of decentralization.

We do it a lot better, granted...

Funny thing is, Web 1.0 was mostly decentralized. Websites were hosted in locations all over the place. IRC and news groups ran across a ton of providers.
I really wish we would just shore up IPFS maybe work out of some kind of decentralized database solution, clean up centralized name service for it all.