[Confiks]

> Did not mean to imply that web5 sprung out of web3 in any sense.

It's really hard for anyone unfamiliar to the area to not read that in your article. To take three quotes out of the whole narrative: "But web5 takes it to the next level", "it's possible to keep the good parts of web3 while improving on its privacy properties (...) thats what web5 is all about", "In web5 (...) This is a radical departure from both web2 and web3".

I get that you wanted some nice story for your blogpost, but it's just not grounded in reality, and you're supporting the wrong actors here if you really want to claim that 'web5' is about privacy.

> I'm generally happy to support the hype

Happy to support privacy destroying technology by adopting their buzzwords while plenty of people – which you even reference at the end – do keep ethics in mind. Alrighty then.