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by p2p_astroturf 1656 days ago
Ironically, the worst part of web3 is that everything that calls itself that, such as web3.js and metamask, are web based.

> The web is decentralized

I know you just want to throw in the invalid "look at me I'm an old school hacker" definition that can't be argued with, but it isn't. To serve content, it has to be hosted somewhere, and that place must be a single entity, and it must have infinite money to replicate the content for infinite users. On freenet or torrent, this isn't the case. Then there are also the other 700 ways the web is centralized...

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> it must have infinite money to replicate the content for infinite users

what?

imagine you make a website

imagine it blows up in popularity

do you get the problem now?