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kevinnn@neatonk
11/21/2022

Is web3 still a useful term? It's not well defined and means different things to different people. I find myself moving towards more specific and self-describing terms like onchain. Do you still use "web3" or do you have other terms you prefer?

In reply to @neatonk
11/21/2022

would love for the standard terms for this industry to move towards concepts like self-ownership, sovereignty, onchain / offchain, transparency, privacy. web3 really doesnt mean anything to me or to anyone (outside of crypto) i say the term to

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laskoski@laskoski
11/21/2022

In line with you and others, I'd prefer to be more specific where possible Web3 is an umbrella that encompasses a philosophy more than anything else fwiw I rarely, if ever, see orgs refer to themselves as "Web2"

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tim 🥝@timdaub
11/21/2022

Of course I have to share this: https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2020-09-08/web3.html But generally, I‘m also disappointed that we‘re bumping the web‘s major version. Web v2.1 could have been nice too. Anyways, I think actual dapp innovation isn‘t happening in browsers right now. Devs are playing with CRDTs a

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Matt Bateman@matt
11/21/2022

Contra to most people commenting I do find it useful. It's a stack of things that can and do come apart but it's useful to see it as a stack, in the same way that web2 is a stack.