Exactly. I worry good emerging tech will get a bad rep as a result of Web3 shills trying to lump them in with their ‘product’ to pump their crypto holdings.
It’s a manufactured play to create a new regulatory space by tech companies and investors trying to slink out of the regulatory noose tightening of their existing ventures.
The standard answer when people ask ‘so, how are you handling identity”, now has become ‘oh the community does’ … it’s raw unadulterated bullshit and companies like Meta enthusiastically embracing the supposed technology to bring deliverance from the yore of big tech should be all the answers one needs.
You know what's really stupid? Web 3.0 was originally the "semantic web" - an effort to make the web machine readable. The term was co-opted by crypto pumpers and dumpers and now has lost all meaning.
Unfortunately, at least in Twitter's case, the markup is twitter-specific instead of being standardized. Which is the thing that the semantic web ppl was trying to avoid.
... but another point of view is that those cards (specially in Google's case) rip off websites by providing the website information without granting the web side page views (and ads). So, some publishers have little incentive to make it easier for third party apps to use their data. (but people do scrape anyway)
Molly is awesome. I think p2p tech and encryption are really neat and potentially revolutionary, but I hate the scammers and bullshitters that have glommed onto the space like parasites. Molly is able to seemingly effortlessly cut directly through bullshit and speak to the core of projects. I'd really love to see her posting about some positive findings she comes across in "web3". Like she said, web3 will happen, it's just about what form it will take.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 43.6 ms ] threadonly thing is, too many people are trying to loop in potentially useful technologies with web3 - like ar, vr, ai, etc.
The standard answer when people ask ‘so, how are you handling identity”, now has become ‘oh the community does’ … it’s raw unadulterated bullshit and companies like Meta enthusiastically embracing the supposed technology to bring deliverance from the yore of big tech should be all the answers one needs.
Unfortunately, at least in Twitter's case, the markup is twitter-specific instead of being standardized. Which is the thing that the semantic web ppl was trying to avoid.
... but another point of view is that those cards (specially in Google's case) rip off websites by providing the website information without granting the web side page views (and ads). So, some publishers have little incentive to make it easier for third party apps to use their data. (but people do scrape anyway)