And the app is literally just a browser that opens up the mobile site. Oh and it needs access to your contacts, messages, camera, microphone, pictures, files, and call logs!
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But you still have to download the app, because if you open the site in your actual browser it blocks you from going further if you try to click on any links
3.0's about blockchain; the problem you're describing is like, late-stage 2.0. not to defend the app fetish or advocate for 3.0 by any means, lord no
It's even more perplexing than that... One version of Web 3.0 is the crypto fantasy of being nickel-and-dimed for every single little thing. There's another, older Web 3.0 concept proposed by Tim Berners-Lee called the semantic web.
we should ban naming things
No more naming things, you were given fingers, use them to point at things.
*>the crypto fantasy of being nickel-and-dimed for every single little thing.
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Ah, the libertarian's fantasy.
Reminds me of this funny short story on the new yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department
the semantic web is cool as hell. Linked data is crazy useful for old school web surfing and stumbling upon neat stuff.
ur so right; at the same time, locked-down, ad-ridden apps are a very low-effort way for lazy developers to cram as much perceived value into blockchain as possible without actually benefiting consumers
this meme addresses a symptom of web 3.0 rather than the root cause or definition
I mean, other visions of Web 3.0 are essentially a larger scale version of what the Fediverse already does. I'm not that optimistic, sadly, since that kind of decentralization isn't particularly profitable.
theoretical vision of web3 versus the actual manifestation built to serve capital 👍
gotta love capitalism using new technologies to extract even more wealth and further worsen working conditions
so fucking true
Honestly to me it seems like the harder these massive Web 2.0 corps push for Web3 and trashing their services for an ever increasing profit margin the more I think that a Web 3.0 won't be Blockchain, but I think it will be something decentralized.
The web is increasingly experienced exclusively through social media and with the building of more decentralized services (and the gaining traction) the more I think a decentralized social media future may be unfolding.
I'm for it, I support FOSS for sure.
I feel like the tech industry are in a state of collapse lol. At least there are cool people making alternatives like this
Preach!
Conversely, hard clients > web apps.