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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 16:53:34 JST Aral Balkan

   Turns out Web 3.0 is fascism.

   • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: repeated this.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 17:15:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Lord

     @lord Rambo 3 is a Rambo film no matter how much you argue it’s a My Little Pony sequel. We don’t need to embrace their silly branding. We don’t need version numbers to describe sustainable, long lived imitatives. We’re not in the VC hype cycle.

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     Lord (lord@pleroma.lord.re)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 17:16:00 JST Lord

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     @aral No no no !
     Web 3.0 is non corporate federated websites !
     
     They choose what was web2.0, they tried to make 3.0 crypto bullshit but we can decide what it is !
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 17:27:56 JST Aral Balkan

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     • NextGraph

     @nextgraph Calm down, dear. Sir Tim, dear. Let me educate you, dear. Why’s the door hitting me on the way out, dear?

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     NextGraph (nextgraph@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 17:27:57 JST NextGraph

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     @aral would you calm down a little?
     as much as i like smallweb and web 0, you should be reminded that web 3.0 is a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee and it refers to the Semantic Web. maybe you meant web3 which is the one of the cryptobros, or web 4.0 with augmented reality, digital twins and AI.
     I reclaim web 3.0 as a good and useful web

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

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     🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 (zdl@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 02:32:51 JST 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

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     @aral

     kaia and Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: like this.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 00:49:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • CompositeFellow

     @quinn @CompositeFellow And nothing about a merkle tree requires universal proofs either. Anything useful you can do with blockchain you can do with a direct acyclic graph without all the “zero trust” bullshit (oh, yeah, mate, zero trust, just don’t 51% me m’kay?)

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     CompositeFellow (compositefellow@ioc.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 00:49:06 JST CompositeFellow

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     @aral It didn't have to be, but technolibertarians seem to be the only one willing to research and experiment with the underlying tech.

     Imho the tech lends itself very well to government functions, managing common goods.....or to people who want to privatize those things and build monopolies around them. Unfortunately the latter group is the only one really pushing for anything or experimenting..... So here we are

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 00:49:06 JST Quinn Norton

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     • CompositeFellow

     @CompositeFellow @aral these muppets didn't invent merkle trees, and merkle trees aren't that useful. they do impress CS students though.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 00:51:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • CompositeFellow

     @CompositeFellow Only ones, eh? Man, good thing I didn’t know that or I wouldn’t be building a peer to peer web right now.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 03:38:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • CompositeFellow

     @CompositeFellow No worries :)

     Oh, and yeah, there’s a reason I call what I do Small Web. And, there’s always web0 ;P https://web0.small-web.org

     💕

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     CompositeFellow (compositefellow@ioc.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 03:38:23 JST CompositeFellow

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     @aral apologies you are right. It was not my intention to state they were the only ones working on it. I misspoke. I appreciate your work and I'm excited to read about it.

     I simply intended to point out it doesn't have to be and we don't have to secede the definition Of Web3 to cryptocurrency communities simply because they spent money on marketing and research. We can also not use Web3 as a term at all.