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Re:The Web3 Fraud by smoldesu on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:48AM (#29588329)
Where's your "Google"? Where's your "YouTube"? Where's your killer app? Everything you've listed is just different ways to throw away cryptocurrency. The average Joe is going to look at that list, chuckle, and go back to browsing Twitter on their iPhone. There's no main attraction here.
Re:The Web3 Fraud by selestify on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:54AM (#29588391)
> Where's your "YouTube"? Where's your killer app?

Where's the "Youtube" of the dark web? The famed red rooms don't even exist.

What's the "killer app" of the dark web? Doesn't even exist, unless maybe you count the drug markets. I'd hazard a guess that they're by far the most popular.

> Everything you've listed is just different ways to throw away cryptocurrency.

I literally gave as an example how you could use fiat-backed crypto to buy gold-backed crypto. These assets literally track their real-world equivalents. Or do you have an issue with modern banking and the stock market too, because it's "just different ways to throw away" fake fiat money?

> The average Joe is going to look at that list, chuckle, and go back to browsing Twitter on their iPhone.

Good. The average Joe has no business using Tor. Hell, the average Joe doesn't even care enough about privacy to stop using Facebook. The average Joe doesn't need a lot of things. Who cares what the average Joe wants or doesn't want, unless you're trying specifically to market a product to the average Joe?

Crypto exists for those who actually find a use for it. You seem either unable or unwilling to acknowledge this fact. Which is it?

Re:The Web3 Fraud by webmaven on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:04AM (#29593088)
> The average Joe has no business using Tor.

If the only people using Tor are people who actually need it, then 'using Tor' becomes a very dangerous marker.

Re:The Web3 Fraud by smoldesu on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:27AM (#29588609)
If you've reduced your argument to "people shouldn't use it if they don't know what it is", have you considered that you might not be talking about the future of software? Nobody sold iPhones because it "exists for those who actually find a use for it".
Re:The Web3 Fraud by selestify on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:33AM (#29588655)
I never claimed it's the be-all future of software. It's got its uses and its uses are here to stay, that I'm sure of.
Re:The Web3 Fraud by smoldesu on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:10AM (#29589310)
So... is Web3 not a successor to Web2 then?
Re:The Web3 Fraud by selestify on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:42AM (#29591374)
No, of course not. I never claimed it was. This whole thread is about not comparing apples to oranges.