My First Impressions of Web3

Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by password1 on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:56PM (#29846726)

Can you point me to where this insightful discussion happens? And where can I educate myself? 99,99% of content and forums I find online about crypto only care about promoting coins, nfts or services basing only on futuristic visionary promises, hyping up the users and attempts at FOMO. It's almost literal spam. This is the first time I read something that just explains how thing works from a technical standpoint and what challenges are there.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by darcys22 on Friday January 07, 2022 @07:19PM (#29846969)

Its almost entirely done on crypto twitter. You follow the builders and they talk about this stuff. Tweet threads are terrible but that is where the good information is.

Twitter is frustrating in that the good content is buried and if you follow the wrong people they just spam your feed.

Its a constant battle to keep the signal to noise ratio of your feed high and the right people to follow constantly changes.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by beoberha on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:07PM (#29847420)

I got into web3/crypto (hate both those terms) Twitter a few months ago and it took a very significant amount of time to find the signal among the noise if you will. Twitter’s algorithms heavily favor engagement which in turn favors “influencers” who lack a lot of technical knowledge and peddle hype. I can see why curious skeptics are so quickly turned off, but there really is a gold mine of good discussion out there.

@das_connor is an awesome follow. He works for Avalanche (which I believe will be a massive player in enterprise blockchain adoption).

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by landemva on Saturday January 08, 2022 @01:25AM (#29849148)

I agree about Twatter being difficult. And it is time consuming. Some projects have decent Discord channels. It depends on the devs and community there.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by moneywoes on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:51PM (#29848128)

Who are some of these people in your experience?

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by pshc on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:01PM (#29847360)

It is quite difficult because indeed everyone has a profit motive to shill. The only way I could get a good read on anything was by experimenting with the tech.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by TimJRobinson on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:21PM (#29847501)

Some of the most interesting tech focused people I've found on twitter:

- @VitalikButerin

- @Hasufl

- @ePolynya

- @gakonst

Can see who they're following as a launchpad into the more interesting ecosystem

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by PretzelPirate on Friday January 07, 2022 @07:12PM (#29846906)

This is the best place for deep, technical discussions free of shilling: https://ethresear.ch/

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by mattwilsonn888 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:00AM (#29850848)

David Lancashire has given numerous interviews on the subject of Ethereum's issues around node operation.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by chucksmash on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:25PM (#29847536)

The Daily Thread on https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance has a number of folks who are in it for the the tech and generally some pretty good takes on protocol/ecosystem tech. It is better than any other crypto subreddit I've come across.

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