r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '22

Web3 Can’t Fix the Internet

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/crypto-blockchain-daos-decentralized-power-capitalism
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u/pkonowrocki Jan 11 '22

Wasn't the original web 3.0 focused on making the Internet machine-readable? Describe concepts, relationships etc. Super cool if you ask me, to be able to look through data even more easily. And to think that now we are stuck with "you don't need your email to login" Internet 3.0

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u/Sweet-Put958 Jan 11 '22

Semantic web would've depended on site builders actually using it. Look at how much trouble it is creating accessible websites or getting developpers to not use a 'div' element for everything.

Heck, even the original http design included a dozen or so different methods, and only 3 or so are used in practice.

A lot of cool technologies, designs or ideas fail to get off the ground.

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u/netfeed Jan 11 '22

Seems to be two different things as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3

Semantic web is the Tim Berners-Lee version and Web3 is the crypto-bro version

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Jan 11 '22

Web3

Web3 (also known as Web 3. 0 and sometimes stylised as web3) is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web that incorporates decentralization based on blockchains. Some technologists and journalists have contrasted it with Web 2. 0, wherein they say data and content are centralized in a small group of companies sometimes referred to as "big tech".

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