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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by smoldesu on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:31PM (#33710163)
No? ActivityPub is a protocol over HTTP - that's solidly last-gen. IPFS is caught between iterations but IMO is solidly Web2, and WebTorrent/Namecoin are abstractions over pre-existing technology. I think that's appropriate for a Web2.1 starter-pack, maybe.
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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by rhn_mk1 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:04PM (#33711495)
What's next-gen is the federation, as opposed to the centralization of the current-gen. HTTP has nothing to do with it, even the "semantic 3.0" didn't ditch it.
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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by smoldesu on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:13PM (#33711599)
That's not next-gen. Federation has existed since the 90s in the form of P2P trackers and other networking paradigms. HTTP has everything to do with it because Mastodon is built on a client-server model (not a peer-to-peer one) which is the textbook definition of a Web2 network.
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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by rhn_mk1 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:43AM (#33716655)
When web 2.0 entered the picture, it didn't bring in anything new either, but represented a different focus. I think my proposal makes sense as "3.0" because similarly, there's not much new except a new focus in it.
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