[HN Gopher] What Is the Web Revival? ___________________________________________________________________ What Is the Web Revival? Author : spansoa Score : 32 points Date : 2022-05-29 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (thoughts.melonking.net) (TXT) w3m dump (thoughts.melonking.net) | scyclow wrote: | It makes me very happy to know that all of these websites exist. | | It also makes me sad to see unnecessary hostility towards crypto. | I get it: most NFTs are hyper commercialized trash, and they're | in direct opposition to the values outlined in this article. But | there's also so much weird, non-commercialized crypto stuff out | there that shares a lot of the ethos of early web tinkerers. | meowkit wrote: | Reading the yesterweb criticism page of crypto/web3 that is | linked to by the OP makes me think this movement is not going | to gain much momentum. The criticism is somewhat accurate, but | extremely shallow and makes no attempt to steel man potential | benefits. | | Not that I expect this to land well with the HN crowd, but | web3/crypto has the tyrannical effects of capitalism/growth on | its side as a force for the "future of the web". Going up | against that with the non-profit model seems... quaint. | kelseyfrog wrote: | Yesterweb asks a simple question, "Can't we have one thing, | one measly crumb-of-a-thing, not tainted by capitalism?" And | the resounding response is "NO." | giantrobot wrote: | > But there's also so much weird, non-commercialized crypto | stuff out there that shares a lot of the ethos of early web | tinkerers. | | Bullshit. Without miners there's no "crypto" and without | payouts there's no miners. So "web3" can _only_ exist where | there 's some financial incentive to run miners. Users can't | spend real money to access this system so they need to convert | their money to Geoffrey dollars to even access "web3" content. | This is 180deg from the "old web". End users needed no more | investment than their computer and Internet connection. They | didn't have to prop up some asshole's upline to check out the | Unofficial X-Files Fan Page. | MrAwesome wrote: | I am not aware of any non-commercialized crypto anything (from | my understanding, this is sorta by definition, but maybe I'm | missing something). Do you have any examples? | Semiapies wrote: | I support more people having websites, if only to make it harder | for people to pretend it's revolutionary and special to do so. | hirundo wrote: | This is what the world looked like when it felt | safe/exciting/mysterious, maybe I'll feel that way now if I make | it look like that again. For me that world is in the seventies, | not the nineties. I want a psychedelic not a web revival. | hprotagonist wrote: | microdosing is VC backed now! aren't you thrilled?! :/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-29 23:00 UTC)