<story><title>But, aren&apos;t you folks web2?</title><url>https://nadh.in/blog/web2-web3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TimJRobinson</author><text>I think the OP is missing what those kids actually desire when they say web3 - self sovereignty.&lt;p&gt;They grew up in an era where a few big tech companies control most of their experiences, and you&amp;#x27;re completely locked into them unable to escape even if you hate the platform because that&amp;#x27;s where all your friends are.&lt;p&gt;Web3 is where you can have one digital login owned by you that you can use for many services and you can easily move somewhere else if that service turns evil.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hosting your own website vs having a page on Facebook. It&amp;#x27;s being able to trade any digital with friends without having to be locked into one platform. It&amp;#x27;s having all your likes and personal preferences carry with you between services.&lt;p&gt;We had more of this in the early days of the internet, but people just graduating don&amp;#x27;t remember this, they just know an internet of walled gardens they want to escape from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>I think that&amp;#x27;s a valid concern, but it&amp;#x27;s not clear that the web3 companies are even trying to solve it rather than replace other companies. We&amp;#x27;ve seen so many times over where the “decentralized” system relies on a handful of companies to function and they always seem to be pushing their own site rather than you hosting yourself.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a new college grad doesn&amp;#x27;t remember the 2010s but almost all of these companies have executives, board members, and VCs who were there at the time, and I think it&amp;#x27;s telling that you very rarely hear anyone discuss what lead to so much centralization and the systems they propose are clearly going to suffer from the same problems if anyone starts using them seriously. This isn&amp;#x27;t a novel observation or especially hard to find good discussions about so it&amp;#x27;s hard to avoid the conclusion that they&amp;#x27;re not looking for it because there&amp;#x27;s no profit in it.</text></comment>
<story><title>But, aren&apos;t you folks web2?</title><url>https://nadh.in/blog/web2-web3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TimJRobinson</author><text>I think the OP is missing what those kids actually desire when they say web3 - self sovereignty.&lt;p&gt;They grew up in an era where a few big tech companies control most of their experiences, and you&amp;#x27;re completely locked into them unable to escape even if you hate the platform because that&amp;#x27;s where all your friends are.&lt;p&gt;Web3 is where you can have one digital login owned by you that you can use for many services and you can easily move somewhere else if that service turns evil.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hosting your own website vs having a page on Facebook. It&amp;#x27;s being able to trade any digital with friends without having to be locked into one platform. It&amp;#x27;s having all your likes and personal preferences carry with you between services.&lt;p&gt;We had more of this in the early days of the internet, but people just graduating don&amp;#x27;t remember this, they just know an internet of walled gardens they want to escape from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>red_trumpet</author><text>&amp;gt; I think the OP is missing what those kids actually desire when they say web3 - self sovereignty.&lt;p&gt;You might be right, but do they actually achieve this?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s hosting your own website vs having a page on Facebook.&lt;p&gt;I mean, running your own E-Mail or Mastodon instance is self sourvereignty in the way you propose. But I&amp;#x27;ve never heard anyone claiming this to be web3.</text></comment>