The decentralised finance club needs to make their core values poster bigger and easier to understand
We’re here in 2023 and they still forget that the core value of “not your keys not your wallet” is the equivalent of putting your cash under your mattress instead of using a bank and the complexity that comes with that is unavoidable.
You can get more people to use a mediocre product/technology by making it easy to use
People will use complex products/technologies if they are useful enough.
But these people can’t make it useful so they keep banging their head against the wall trying to make it more simple.
It is inevitable that they will try the even lazier route of deceiving people into thinking it is simple.
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I remember a few years ago getting all these webdev articles about web3.0 decentralised apps, and all I could think during and after reading was how fucking inefficient it all was. How insanely slow, inefficient and wasteful.
Are there any examples of web3.0 apps that actually do anything? It's all a fucking scam, isn't it...
flat fuckin zero
most of this shit doesn't exist
NFTs exist
lol
listen, 99% of projects trying to make a self-lifting crane fail. but can you imagine the money you could make if you invested in the 1% that succeeded in spite of physics and common sense? send your investment to the following monero address (SEC enforcement agents do not have my permission to view this post!)
I don't think most people would consider it web3 but there's stuff based on IPFS and related/similar projects that for example let you chat with people without need for any sort of server (technically, you need some "server" to bootstrap yourself into the network but it's very much a small detail and you can just store a list of peers you've seen and hope that they'll be enough to bootstrap you.)
The whole "web3.0" and blockchain thing is such a damned shame because it has tainted projects like IPFS by association, and IPFS (really mostly libp2p which ipfs is built on) mostly actually lives up to the hype around decentralization, at least for networking nerds.
I think my favourite example of how libp2p/ipfs can revolutionize things so far is https://hyprspace.io, one guy was able to put together a VPN that is so much nicer to use than stuff like wireguard, you just run it on every device, configure the IP you want the devices to have, and so long as they can discover each other over some connection (switching between connections is still janky sadly) It Just Works. Yeah the average person is probably bored to tears but to me that's.. magic, that's how networking should have been for the last 20 years!
PoolTogether a no loss lottery.
Essentially a savings account that enters you in daily and weekly draws to win. Prize draw is funded by the pools "interest" made in that week.
Need your savings again, pull it out and spend it.. .
But Web3 will revolutionize the world!
... by making it that much worse with even more rent-seeking.
a delicate reminder now that @fasterandworse@awful.systems has undeleted this thread:
we know what a crypto shill looks like and we are watching
I don’t wish you work
But I will probably enjoy seeing what happens if they show up, no lies
Nobody even knows what the fuck web 2.0 actually is. CSS? JS? SPAs? Flash? No flash? Rounded corners? Ad blocker blockers? Sevice workers? Sans serif fonts? Lack of "under construction" gifs?
Web 3.0 is inevitable, not because blockchain or machine learning shit is revolutionarily useful, but because whatever becomes popular will end up being called web 3.0 anyway.
Also annoyed at the .0 BS. Maybe it sounded cool and techy in the 90s but if the major versions are already nonsense, how the hell are you gonna have a minor one?
I never recognised web 2.0 because my first encounter with it was a PM walking up to my desk and asking if I could code in web 2.0
here's a stupid meme that might explain my post
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I mean they're making a semi-valid point. If you don't get charged for it, it's not Web 3.0. Specifying that you're paying for it is redundant. This is more of a dig against web3 than anything
wot?
you would give any website your credit card details just for authentication?
Coin wallet, but that's what Web3 requires. Writing to the blockchain costs money, it doesn't matter what you do, it costs money. If it doesn't cost money, it can't be Web3. Easiest way to tell if someone is just using it as a buzzword, Web3 cannot be free of charge.
Would I personally do it? Fuck no. But that's what Web3 requires.
