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by thaufeki 1645 days ago
I'm not sure that I like the term 'Web3', as it implies that everything will move in that direction, which I don't think will be the case. I just refer to it as the Decentralized Web. Centralization has many benefits over Decentralization and vice versa. Its a very healthy thing to happen though.

I do think it has a place, and is a promising emerging market. Which is why I've been interested in learning development in that area.
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kennu 1645 days ago
It's not too important for me what the name is, but I think the boat already sailed and the name Web3 will stick. When Web 2.0 was being born, the name wasn't that important either. It's just a social phenomenon that we need a common moniker to refer to the technology/culture at a high level.
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thecleaner 1645 days ago
Web3 means using UDP as the backbone protocol and with hole-punching it makes P2P interactions possible. Hence the whole decentralisation bit. Tbh ipv6 can also achieve the same goals but at the cost of de-anonymization since it's a unique marker.
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pedalpete 1645 days ago
Is that really the technology capability that has been added? I'm not sure you can talk about decentralized Web3 without talking about blockchain.

I credit much of Web2 kicking off with AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3. Though many others would say it was lead by mobile.

My general thoughts, it isn't one thing, or just one technology. Even Web1 was a combination of TCP/IP, HTML, HTTP, and Mosaic/Netscape.

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