[Feriti]

And who else will then operate the web3 infrastructure?

Instead of the Security team at Google, their ddos service and OnCall experts we have whom now?

Some miners?

Perfectly written Blockchain code?

You sound like those things are just free.

[axg11]

I'm not sure I understand your question, genuinely. There are of course costs for the benefits that come with web3: protocols are slow to evolve, and infrastructure is less efficient when we require a distributed consensus. Anyone that thinks "Web 2" or centralized systems will disappear is silly, there will always be situations where the costs of web3 are greater than the benefits. On the other hand, it's equally silly to think that there are zero use cases where the benefits of web3 outweigh the costs. Both can and will coexist.

Static HTML pages still exist today.

[enos_feedler]

The difference is there are relatively fewer static html pages. There wont be relatively fewer web2 deployments vs web3. Itll be mostly web2

[axg11]

I agree - misguided attempts to make everything "web3" shouldn't take away from the huge amount of value that future web3 services can bring, even if they are vastly outnumbered by web2 services forever.

[hypertele-Xii]

Internet Service Providers? Hosting Providers? Literally anyone from their closet?

Google isn't the Internet, no matter how badly they want you to believe that.

[Feriti]

From their closet? What? They develop web3 software in the closet?

[kjsthree]

Not sure if you’ve heard but, over the last two years, some of the most polished and well-produced voices on NPR were literally coming from someone under a blanket in a closet. I’m not sure how much web3 is happening in closets but I wouldn’t bet on zero.

[blawson]

Speaking of which…

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-on-ipfs/

[bsedlm]

have you considered how (not "why?") was google able to give away one gigabyte of email storage to anybody before 2010s?

that was not free either... what I'm trying to get at (and not very eloquently) is that a lot of that work is done by the computers. also, something about how the code is written once and then used by everybody at the same time. sure, writting the code may be expensive at first.

dunno, I doubt better written words will get you to agree with (or see) whatever it is I'm trying to get at.

[Feriti]

I follow plenty of things Google as a company just does due to the money they have.

Undersee cables for example.

Project Zero.

Secure by default.

2FA.

Google even gives you now the option of configuring your ads.

Realistically speaking some entity with a monetary motivation is solving hard problems for us.

Who will solve this issue in web3 and with what motivation?

If it is monetary (as it will be) do I now should start trusting the etherium company instead of Google?

Or should I start trusting 1000 small companies than Google?

I'm quite happy what Google does and I don't know all of those other potential companies.

[eric_cc]

> the etherium company

LOL

[topranks]

Sorry, “foundation”

https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-basics/ethereum-foundation/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethereum-foundation/

[Feriti]

Not sure what you think is funny but did you check the contributor list here https://github.com/orgs/ethereum/people ?

[damon_c]

As a member of an open source community involved in one or more blockchain projects, I can attest that many of these things literally are indeed free.

[Feriti]

An open source community can do a lot and not everything.

I'm not aware of any opensource community being happy at doing on call.

Or end customer support.

Or even marketing.

And if we look at successful opensource projects, than we have companies behind them.