For context, I heard the term "Web 3.0" be used for the first time for everything being put on the blockchain. Then, it reminded me of a post on Mastodon saying that the fediverse is Web 3.0. After that I looked it up on the internet, and the definition included A.I. with crypto.
So I'm wondering, what is actually Web 3.0? What does it mean to you? Or maybe is Web 3.0 just another attempt at making investors pay up?
"Web3" is the crypto stuff. "Web 3.0" is federation.
Obviously, no one has a trademark on these names, anyone could make up a meaning, but yeah, these two definitions/names exist already.
Web 3.0 is the Semantic Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
Web 3.0 is, more or less, what timeshares were to our predecessors. Here's a thing you can theoretically use, but in practice, it's useless and just cons you out of a ton of cash. And the theoretical thing will never actually exist.
Web 1.0 is roughly the early internet up to the start of Facebook. Web 2.0, which we are in now, is the consolidation of the internet into a series of “walled gardens”, where most people engage with the internet though one or more platforms (FB, Twitter, etc), the rub being that these platforms are moderated (and privatized). Web 3.0 is not a thing (yet?), but it’s the idea that decentralization through blockchain technology will create a new “phase” of the internet
