SufferingSteve

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[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 235 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (17 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.