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Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To 'Ignore' Web3, It's 'Not the Web at All'
Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, said Friday that he doesn't view blockchain as a viable solution for building the next iteration of the internet. From a report: He has his own web decentralization project called Solid. "It's important to clarify in order to discuss the impacts ... ⌘ Read more
@prologic Kinda. As per usual, Tim Berners-Lee is in the media here to promote Solid, a bad self-hosting idea that only gets coverage because Tim's famous.
@ocdtrekkie Why is it bad? (and I totally get the whole publicity stunt here 😆)
@ocdtrekkie Why is it bad? (and I totally get the whole publicity stunt here 😆)
@prologic So the problem with Solid is that the concept is to control your data, and merely allow apps to access that data. Aka, a significant downgrade from any selfhosting, because your apps can still disappear at any time.
The only reason this would make sense is if you really really were focused on enabling proprietary services while still giving lip service to owning your data.
@ocdtrekkie So let me get this straight... Solid is about as much of a joke as the idea of running Apps on these silly Blockchain(s) and storing all your Personal Data in "blockchain" / "crypto" networks?! 🤔 🤦♂️ Can I just say:
> All your data belong to us!
@ocdtrekkie So let me get this straight... Solid is about as much of a joke as the idea of running Apps on these silly Blockchain(s) and storing all your Personal Data in "blockchain" / "crypto" networks?! 🤔 🤦♂️ Can I just say:
> All your data belong to us!
@prologic Not quite that bad, but imagine a system that let you keep all your Word docs. But could remove your Microsoft Office install at any time.
@prologic Not quite that bad, but imagine a system that let you keep all your Word docs. But could remove your Microsoft Office install at any time. You might be able to recover your data and use them with another app, but it won't really be the same. And also Microsoft Office was a cloud service?
@ocdtrekkie I'm still hung up on the "it's no longer my data" 😅
@ocdtrekkie I'm still hung up on the "it's no longer my data" 😅
@slashdot
> "You have to understand what the terms mean that we're discussing actually mean, beyond the buzzwords. It's a real shame in fact that the actual Web3 name was taken by Ethereum folks for the stuff that they're doing with blockchain. In fact, Web3 is not the web at all," he said.
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COPE SEETHE DILATE MALD WEB3 FANS, WEB3 IS A FUCKING LIE, GET FUCKED!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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