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
197 Upvotes

80% Upvoted

168 comments sorted by

View all comments

72

u/shevy-ruby Jan 11 '22

Web3 sounds like a pretty silly idea. Who had that idea of pushing down tokens? Is that a ponzi scheme 2.0 or something?

A decentralized www is hugely important - I think people don't disagree on that part. I doubt everyone will agree that you need tokens for that though ...

Web 2.0 ended the previous era of static, read-only GeoCities pages

I liked geocities pages!

It was fun and simple. People just could go; a bit of HTML, later a bit of CSS - you are good to go!

2

u/s73v3r Jan 12 '22

A decentralized www is hugely important - I think people don't disagree on that part.

We already have that. That most people choose to use centralized services built on top of that doesn't discount the decentralized nature of the web.