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[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 201 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (14 children)

There once was a dream of the semantic web, also known as web2. The semantic web could have enabled easy to ingest information of webpages, removing soo much of the computation required to get the information. Thus preventing much of the AI crawling cpu overhead.

What we got as web2 instead was social media. Destroying facts and making people depressed at a newer before seen rate.

Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.

What crypto gave us was fraud, expensive jpgs and scams. The term web is now even so eroded that it has lost much of its meaning. The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 42 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.

It's ironic that the middlemen showed up anyway and busted all the security of those transfers

You want some bipcoin to buy weed drugs on the slip road? Don't bother figuring out how to set up that wallet shit, come to our nifty token exchange where you can buy and sell all kinds of bipcoins

oh btw every government on the planet showed up and dug through our insecure records. hope you weren't actually buying shroom drugs on the slip rod

also we got hacked, you lost all your bipcoins sorry

At least, that's my recollection of events. I was getting my illegal narcotics the old fashioned way.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

the old fashioned way.

A whole swath of trained toads using a special made tube network?

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

getting into a car with a stranger who said he was 15 minutes away two hours ago

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