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The article, and possibly a lot of Web3 discussions/posts, seems to confound two subjects, one that many of us can understand and support, and another that seems dominated by die-hard fans looking for problems that match their favourite solution: 1. Use choice, independence, and sovereignty, and
2. Crypto, in the coin-and-NFT sense (sorry, I'm old, that's not what crypto used to mean, I'd like to revert, get offa my lawn) The second has been discussed on HN and elsewhere, well, if not to death, then to near-death. Of it no more herein. The first, though, is a really interesting topic. We do not need "web3 crypto" to get decentralized privacy respecting user first systems, but if the conversation around "web3 crypto" gets us closer to these things, then, please, converse! (Cynically, perhaps, I think the article is an attempt to link 1 and 2 to make 2 a solution for 1. Manipulative, perhaps. Underhanded, perhaps. Desperate, perhaps. But if it starts us talking more about 1, great!) |