[janalsncm]

Seems like “web3” has completely missed the mark and is actually highly centralized, arguably more so than web2. If I had to guess, it’s because expediency requires it. If you’re in the middle of a gold rush, first principles like decentralization are quickly supplanted by principles like “line goes up”.

[sshine]

> Seems like “web3” has completely missed the mark and is actually highly centralized, arguably more so than web2.

In the sense that the “web3” brand is mostly used to make proof-of-concept and crypto startups in the Ethereum ecosystem, which is just one ecosystem, and a highly centralised one at that, 100%.

Creating a decentralised web is extremely difficult. Most Ethereum web3 projects are more like concept art within a research project.

[TedDoesntTalk]

> Creating a decentralised web is extremely difficult

We’ve had it for years: tor’s .onion sites. And look how popular they are… when was the last time you visited one?

Technically, You could say Web2 sites are decentralized, by the way: most include JS, CSS, and images from different domains and servers.

[q-big]

> We’ve had it for years: tor’s .onion sites. And look how popular they are… when was the last time you visited one?

Don't ask this kind of rhetorical question on HN - HN is exactly where you can find a lot of audience that can honestly answer this question with "today" or "yesterday". :-D

[shakna]

> We’ve had it for years: tor’s .onion sites. And look how popular they are… when was the last time you visited one?

Pornhub's onion site is probably somewhere more regular than I'd like to admit.

[BlueTemplar]

I thought that it was frowned upon to use tor for high bandwidth uses like video ?