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by Groxx 1630 days ago
as much as I truly despise the current "web 3 is blockchain" trend, I do kinda think "web 3" as "decentralized" works. blockchains are just in vogue (in a big way, to web 3's significant loss) because of a couple unicorns.

maybe this is "web 2.5"? federation brings significant advantages from both centralized and decentralized, while not being fully either.
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afiori 1630 days ago
federation and decentralization are very different; (even if you probably could implement federation on decentralized smart contracts)
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Groxx 1630 days ago
Which is why I don't think it fits with "web 3 as decentralization", yeah. It's fundamentally different from either, but we lack integers between 2 and 3, and I doubt web 4 would take off.
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