| that Web2 VS Web3 schema pretty much summarize what's wrong with the new internet based on brand identities instead of technical merits. A brief rebuttal: - Twitter can censor any account or Tweet: yes, but Twitter is not the web, you can host your own tweets, even for free. - Web3 tweets are better because decentralized: translations -> your thought are going to be forever visible to everybody and not even the author will be able to remove them. Of course any of those new shiny web3 logs can fail and everything can disappear with them. - Payment services may decide to not allow payments: Web3 payments can do the same. There is nothing that forces me to accept a payment and if that was true, that would be a problem. I __do want__ to refuse payments from criminals and I do wanna know if someone is. - servers for gig economy may go down. web3 servers can go down as well, they are made of hardware and maintained by people too.
If, for example, Uber can't keep their servers running despite their profits depend on them, imagine what would happen if Uber was running on someone else's node who DGAF if they lose money or not... Now imagine what would happen to me, a completely unknown anonymous individual, with no power. What happens if something goes wrong and "my income is affected"? Who is responsible? Who can I sue in case the SLA in the agreement haven't been guaranteed? Will "the decentralized network of 1000s of computers" reimburse me? |
If you take payments on your site via crypto, I'm not sure what you mean by "not accepting payments from criminals", as this is not a service provided by Visa or MasterCard either. I have a feeling running a criminal background check on all your users might impact your conversion rate, but you are as free to do that in Web3 as in Web2. (What are you selling that you would need to be concerned with such things anyways? If I'm selling an honest product or service, I don't care who buys it.)
There is no SLA. If you need an SLA you can create a hybrid site that both stores files in a central server and also backs them up to Filecoin or Arweave or Sia or Chia or whatever file network you like. But decentralization does tend to lend itself to resiliency, for example, Ethereum has 100% uptime over the past 6 years.