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The promise of all the overblown claims made for it?

I don't think anything could fulfil that!

I'm sure there are some useful applications for blockchain tech, but it's not a fundamental base for a new generation of the internet. However the desire to get out of the highly centralised corporate controlled version of the internet is a good one.

Personally I do hope the next generation is based on decentralised/federated tech. Like the "fediverse" systems such as mastodon. I think these genuinely do fulfil some of the promised claims of the web3 bandwagon, but actually have nothing to do with blockchain.

However I also doubt if the fediverse will be the future of the internet either, but it's certainly the side of the internet that I'm enjoying right now and shows what a social internet away from the shackles of the big tech companies could be!