Aaron Parecki

their rugged individualism just makes them unable to see any of our current problems as systemic, and so their solution is to just recreate basically the same structures with different people in charge

so i have absolutely no idea how this is meant to lead us to anything other than: facebook and twitter, except now all the posts are hosted by someone else, so facebook and twitter save money. also you can't delete posts because they're on the blockchain, idk

i have made good-faith attempts to understand what they are so excited about but it always boils down to "what if, instead of trusting a rich company with all your information... you trusted a group of rich anonymous strangers?"

it is completely wild to me how many people on here are making 100% confident statements about what is made possible by web3, a thing that does not seem to actually exist

and right at the same time as facebook releases an AMV about "the metaverse" and pretends it's a product

Right, but Web 2.0 (although the term was a bit of a joke to developers) was describing technologies solving actual problems. Web3 is vague hype.

Folks like https://indieweb.org/ share some of the web3 goals, but without the speculative crypto bro stuff.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Cyberpunk: The bright lights and shiny tech is to distract you from the atomisation of your community and the stripping of your human rights to the point that you are considered little more than a number

Techbros: How cool is shiny thing from cyberpunk

Orgs supporting NFTs and crypto: Twitter, Discord and Adobe (Big Tech, centralised)
Projects opposing it: Mastodon, Zulip and Kritta (open source, decentralised)
If you think crypto and NFTs will democratise the internet, wonder why Big Tech likes it and decentralised OS doesn't

How to gain attention for what you do:

1. Do good work
2. Share your process
3. Share your outcomes
4. Make friends with smart people
5. Share the good work of your smart friends

it's honestly too much that our democracy is crumbling, the earth is falling apart, and i also have to see people talking about NFTs and the metaverse