Aaron Parecki

If you genuinely believe in what you've created, why steal existing branding? It's like calling my lemonade stand's product '@CocaCola 2'

it isn’t Web3 unless it comes from the aria live region of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—otherwise it’s just sparkling blockchain

My thought on the web3 discussion: there is absolutely something interesting with a lot of positive potential there, but if you buy into a bunch of Techno Utopian ideology that blinds you to the fact that power dynamics exist everywhere, you’re simply repeating past mistakes.

The web 3.0 was already claimed by the RDF semantic web movement. It wasn't correct then, it isn't correct now. Partly because it implies that we're in a web 2.0 world still, and we very much isn't, partly because it isn't built on web tech. https://twitter.com/voxpelli/status/1442540075800223749?s=20

The thing you are supposed to be decentralizing is power.

Imagine the idealism necessary to think people would markup the content they produced such that it might be useful to other people outside of the immediate context in which it was created.

They will instead obfuscate it as much as possible with fucked up javascript.

We are at least on Web 7.0 by now and it is all still terrible.

Have you checked out @aaronpk's website?

http://aaronparecki.com

He told us all about on our OAuth episode.

http://changelog.fm/456

It's an #IndieWeb showcase. Definitely worth a 👀

web 1.0: free information for all
web 2.0: user-generated content
web 3.0: 🤑🤑🤑 FUCK THE EARTH GET RICH QUICK 💸💸💸

Web3 is a jargon term anyway, just like Web 2.0 was. It’s not a protocol. I can say we are on Web 1, 2, 3 or 25. Crypto people are just using the term Web3 in order to stamp their authority on the internet.

what's actually going on in the "web 3" thread is dreaming up new ways to get people to rent stuff but pretending that they own it

it's kind of a new spin on the "sharing economy", where we pretend people own their labour but actually big platform companies do

"we will redistribute power by inventing new property rights that you buy with fake internet money" is definitely a sensible proposal

so for folks who think there isn't "any real use case beyond speculation," the reason to get on board is that "fortunes are being made"?

I was thinking that earlier today - I've seen plenty of technology come and go, and there are boosters and there are skeptics, but I can't remember anything before where one side said it was the future of everything and the other side saw it as an absolutely value-less grift

In my career so far, I cannot think of any tech that is 10% as polarizing as blockchain/cryptocurrency/NFT. So much investment and activity. So many doubters (me included.) This rift feels like a big deal.