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It would be fitting to call privacy violating sites and bot/AI spam Web 3.0 (lemm.ee)
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I don’t know if there already is a real Web 3.0 definition out there (the first search results I got were using web3.0 to promote crypto so fuck that definition) but like Web 1.0 was the internet being a way for specific scientists/hobbyists/organizations to send esoteric data right?

Web 2.0 is the shift over to creating and sharing content on a broad scale, people reaching out through the web to interact and express themselves. Creators and companies trying to reach out to be accessible by lots of people.

We went from “you have to put in work to send/receive data on the net” to “it is easy for you to send stuff to the net and recieve stuff from the net” to “the net knows where you live and begs you to give it data it can sell then takes that data even if you refuse”

We also went from “you want this info, you need to find someone with it, set up a connection, get it” to “now we have efficient search engines help you easily find what you want” to “the internet is now the library of babel but worse because all the nonsense is ‘AI’ which can sometimes convincingly look like it isn’t nonsense.”

Both those paths seem like direct continuation so I propose we use web3.0 as a term for the enshittified internet.

Thoughts? We can call the decentralization of the net 4.0 because it’s being spurred on in response to 3.0 yeah?

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

“web 3.0” was originally a lot of vague but innocuous ideas from the pre-silo era of independent web sites, such as microformats, the semantic web and generally more modular and interoperable web technologies. Then the open web died after Google and Facebook consolidated their grip as one-stop shops, and soon after that, crypto grifters took over the term for “let’s turn everything into a casino”

[–] hihi24522@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Could you expand on what you mean by modular web technologies? Also when would you say the shift over from interoperable web technologies to one-stop-shop happened?

I’m relatively young and wasn’t really allowed on the internet, but from what I remember (trying to build websites on the old family computer in the basement lol) there were lots of issues with browsers not working with the same CSS properties circa 2016. Then again I had no idea what I was doing at the time so maybe it wasn’t so bad.

YouTube seemed to start going down hill shortly after that, followed swiftly by other apps and sites.

Basically as soon as I got consistent internet access it seemed like the internet was getting worse, but it seemed like lots of interoperability/compatibility issues were resolved over the decline in quality of the content of the net.

Again, I didn’t have much experience with the old net so I want to know your perspective

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

also block chain is broken if you have enough money to buy enough nodes that verify the ledger you can add fake entries to the ledger.