Aaron Parecki

Dear world: It is perfectly possible to imagine a radically-decentralized Web and simultaneously disbelieve that basing it on blockchain is necessary or even desirable.

But de facto, the term “Web3” now means “buy my cryptocurrency” and is thus polluted, probably beyond repair.

“So, Mark, what attracted you to the Metaverse?”
“Well, I read this book about how the government secretly built a virus that takes over your brain when you look at a QR code, and makes you into a nonsense-babbling slave, and thought it was a logical extension of Facebook.”

1992: the internet will be like Snow Crash
2021: the facebook will be like Snow Crash

OAuth is a standard for protecting an app from being stolen or copied by other people.

Independent servers talking to each other using standard protocols to enable communication? I thought we just called that the web.

But yeah, I get the need for a marketing term to describe how this is something different than what folks are typically used to.