Around where I am, and in much of the internet at large, “Web 3.0” is only talked about when it comes to “how can we put this on the blockchain” or “how can we get even more surveillance and monetization out of this” discussions.
Web 3 was never anything but marketing nonsense. To be fair, that was true for Web 2.0 as well. Web 2.0 was always about rebranding the internet as a profitable thing for high finance to invest in following the 2000 dotcom crash. It had nothing to do with any particular technology, and O’Reilly’s manifesto about Web 2.0 was filled with nothing but marketing slogans. After all, he was just a knock-off “Windows ME for Dummies” book publisher who stumbled on a con that San Francisco financiers loved to use. Almost 20 years later the crypto weirdos - who had been at their own con for the majority of the intervening years - thought that making a sequel of O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 con would be an excellent idea. It’s bullshit all the way down and always has been.
There’sn what, 100k active users on the entire lemmyverse? Our 1k active users are a significantly outsized proportion of all that traffic? We’re very small.
I was under the impression that this federated network of self-hosted servers we’re using to communicate right now was web 3.0
It is? I truly didn’t know.
Around where I am, and in much of the internet at large, “Web 3.0” is only talked about when it comes to “how can we put this on the blockchain” or “how can we get even more surveillance and monetization out of this” discussions.
Web 3 was never anything but marketing nonsense. To be fair, that was true for Web 2.0 as well. Web 2.0 was always about rebranding the internet as a profitable thing for high finance to invest in following the 2000 dotcom crash. It had nothing to do with any particular technology, and O’Reilly’s manifesto about Web 2.0 was filled with nothing but marketing slogans. After all, he was just a knock-off “Windows ME for Dummies” book publisher who stumbled on a con that San Francisco financiers loved to use. Almost 20 years later the crypto weirdos - who had been at their own con for the majority of the intervening years - thought that making a sequel of O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 con would be an excellent idea. It’s bullshit all the way down and always has been.
Nah, the real Web 3.0 is the Semantic Web. Any day now.
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There’sn what, 100k active users on the entire lemmyverse? Our 1k active users are a significantly outsized proportion of all that traffic? We’re very small.
Whatever eventually blows up in the coming future will retroactively call itself Web 3.0 when everything else dies to it.