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[–] ImplyingImplications 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And the app is literally just a browser that opens up the mobile site. Oh and it needs access to your contacts, messages, camera, microphone, pictures, files, and call logs!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

But you still have to download the app, because if you open the site in your actual browser it blocks you from going further if you try to click on any links

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

3.0's about blockchain; the problem you're describing is like, late-stage 2.0. not to defend the app fetish or advocate for 3.0 by any means, lord no

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's even more perplexing than that... One version of Web 3.0 is the crypto fantasy of being nickel-and-dimed for every single little thing. There's another, older Web 3.0 concept proposed by Tim Berners-Lee called the semantic web.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

we should ban naming things

[–] isVeryLoud 9 points 2 years ago

No more naming things, you were given fingers, use them to point at things.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago
*>the crypto fantasy of being nickel-and-dimed for every single little thing.
*

Ah, the libertarian's fantasy.

Reminds me of this funny short story on the new yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

the semantic web is cool as hell. Linked data is crazy useful for old school web surfing and stumbling upon neat stuff.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ur so right; at the same time, locked-down, ad-ridden apps are a very low-effort way for lazy developers to cram as much perceived value into blockchain as possible without actually benefiting consumers

this meme addresses a symptom of web 3.0 rather than the root cause or definition

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

yeahhhh you're right, i get what you mean

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly to me it seems like the harder these massive Web 2.0 corps push for Web3 and trashing their services for an ever increasing profit margin the more I think that a Web 3.0 won't be Blockchain, but I think it will be something decentralized.

The web is increasingly experienced exclusively through social media and with the building of more decentralized services (and the gaining traction) the more I think a decentralized social media future may be unfolding.

I'm for it, I support FOSS for sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I feel like the tech industry are in a state of collapse lol. At least there are cool people making alternatives like this

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, other visions of Web 3.0 are essentially a larger scale version of what the Fediverse already does. I'm not that optimistic, sadly, since that kind of decentralization isn't particularly profitable.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

theoretical vision of web3 versus the actual manifestation built to serve capital 👍

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

gotta love capitalism using new technologies to extract even more wealth and further worsen working conditions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

so fucking true

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Preach!

Conversely, hard clients > web apps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

kid named blockchain: