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Re:Why Web3? by kinship7 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @11:17PM (#29765778)
You're right that the UX layer could be centralized. However, the data that the UX is built on would not be centralized. In the Uber example, it's as if the ride-hailing backend were available to anyone.

The centralized UX could censor transactions like you say, but the barrier to entry is low for another UX, built on the same decentralized data, to emerge and challenge the centralized UX. That's because the data is available to everyone.

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Re:Why Web3? by wslh on Sunday January 02, 2022 @06:56AM (#29768008)
> but the barrier to entry is low for another UX

I don't agree. I think excellent UXs have a super high barrier of entry. Look at apps such as Google Docs, TikTok, etc.

A company could build an UX without even thinking about being decentralized and users will care about the UX but not about "decentralization politics". If an excellent decentralized UX is built, you just copy the interesting parts and add you proprietary ones, sell you brand and success!

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Re:Why Web3? by synapse_soap on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:47PM (#29771246)
Google Docs - not just a UX, built on the Google ecosystem with its existing network of users and massive amounts of data

TikTok - not just a UX, but a massive social network, again with lots of data.

In a decentralized world, there will be a decentralized social network like TikTok. The UX would interact with that social network; it wouldn't create the social network itself. To give another example, it's as if Facebook's social network was open to anyone to build a UX on top of and interact with. Much lower barrier to entry.

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