kenton 39 points 3 years ago

The fediverse is the real Web3

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ampcold 31 points 3 years ago

I think it is more like the protoweb. How this works is more similar to BBSes, Usenet, IRC networks and the like from 30 years ago. Truly distributed networks with no central controlling mechanism and the systems communicate by simply agreeing on the technical protocol. That was what the internet was designed for i the first place. The last couple of decades where everything has been centralized to a few big megacorps is an abomination.

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radix 11 points 3 years ago

Everything old is new again. Time is a flat circle.

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mobyduck648 10 points 3 years ago

Since the fediverse unlike the rest of the web consists mostly of people hostile to aggressive monetisation there’s a built-in limit to how ‘capitalist’ (in the popular sense rather than the technical sense) an instance can be in terms of funding it. Instances will be forced to find alternative ways to pay the bills to the traditional ‘our users are the commodity we sell’ approach of the corporate social media platforms if they want to stick around for the long run which will be a fantastic thing for the web I think.

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cybersandwich 1 point 3 years ago

"History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes" -Mark Twain

It definitely feels like a throw back to before we had these massive centralized 'social networks'.

Reddit will live on, but I think we'll see a shift to the fediverse. It's the best of both worlds. Smaller communities but with that big network feel if you want. Activity pub is great.

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Stoneykins 10 points 3 years ago

I've been thinking we call it web4.0 to mess with the cryptobros. Idk if it is an accurate name, but I bet they would hate it.

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joyjoy 13 points 3 years ago

web-4.0-rc1-final.2

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Mkengine 5 points 3 years ago

I don't know anything about Web3, what do people outside of the fediverse say what Web3 is or should be?

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Stoneykins 18 points 3 years ago

Web3 was suppose to be this decades revolution of the internet, where everything became interconnected and decentralized and without authority figures or something

Then cryptocurrency enthusiasts decided blockchain counts as that and starting calling everything related to cryptocurrency and Blockchain web3. So now web3 just means cryptocurrency, but they still act like it is the future of the entire internet. I think it is pretty dumb, who wants finances intrinsically tied to everything they do online?

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towerful 3 points 3 years ago

I think web3.0 was supposed to live on Blockchains.
So, fully decentralised.
I think the partially decentralised format of the fediverse is a more sustainable model

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Mummelpuffin 2 points 3 years ago

It was always hazy, but the general idea was decentralizing things. Problem is, cryptobros gonna crypto.

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