One thing I keep coming back to with all this “web3” guff: the premise is openness and freedom, right? How does that square with the way the vast majority of people now use the internet: on smartphones controlled by one of two of the biggest companies in the world? This seems to me like a fundamental issue for anything claiming to be “web 3” in a way that “web 2.0” never had to deal with.
A totally open library sounds like a fascinating concept, but Google or Apple are ultimately going to gatekeeper access to it.
A totally open library sounds like a fascinating concept, but Google or Apple are ultimately going to gatekeeper access to it.