Web Three will succeed if we have to trick you into using it - eviltoast

The decentralised finance club needs to make their core values poster bigger and easier to understand

We’re here in 2023 and they still forget that the core value of “not your keys not your wallet” is the equivalent of putting your cash under your mattress instead of using a bank and the complexity that comes with that is unavoidable.

You can get more people to use a mediocre product/technology by making it easy to use

People will use complex products/technologies if they are useful enough.

But these people can’t make it useful so they keep banging their head against the wall trying to make it more simple.

It is inevitable that they will try the even lazier route of deceiving people into thinking it is simple.

Nitter: https://nitter.net/evanvar/status/1699032296870015232

edit: changed title to reduce keyword matches in lemmy fediverse searches

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    check it out, it’s kind of interesting as a sort of way to treat web technology like a database (and some bits feel surprisingly close to Prolog in semantics, which tracks) but it’s been pretty spectacularly unsuccessful at gaining any real adoption (which gave the cryptobros ample opportunity to hop in and parasitize the term, leading to their also spectacularly unsuccessful version of web 3). see also solid, which is an implementation of a bunch of Semantic Web ideas (and it barely works, and I’m fairly certain I remember seeing a bunch of folks quit the project all at once recently), and note that the web, semantic web, and solid are all Tim Berners-Lee projects

    • Jonathan Hendry@iosdev.space
      6·
      1 year ago

      @self @froztbyte

      “conceived the Solid project … as a way to give individual users full control over the usage of their data”

      "Berners-Lee’s research team collaborated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute "

      I see a potential problem.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Oic

      I hadn’t actually realised it was a stolen term (although in retrospect, uh, that tracks)

      At each recurrence of running into shit like this, I’m glad (and optimistic(?)) that the average coiner shitbird tended more greedy than clever, and that that by itself would help self-shorten the period of awful

      (There’s still the remainder, of course, and they have to be kept watch on as usual)