Ask HN: Will Web3 ever become mainstream?

Re:Ask HN: Will Web3 ever become mainstream? by PaulHoule on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:24AM (#35860376)

No. People don’t see the value in ‘decentralization’, their motto is something like ‘give me convenience or give me death’. This commercial, for the first personal computer that didn’t come with any programming tools, reveals the true attitude of the masses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI

(Note the guy talking in the screen is a blockhead as I see it.)

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Re:Ask HN: Will Web3 ever become mainstream? by version_five on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:29AM (#35860404)

I'd put it slightly differently: nobody has found an important enough problem that decentralization solves. (Edit: and at the same time there are lots of benefits to central authorities, meaning decentralization has an even bigger hill to climb in many cases)

It also feels to me like most implementations of anything decentralized just end up creating a different de-facto central authority as part of the process.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Web3 ever become mainstream? by api on Monday May 08, 2023 @08:18AM (#35860738)

Web3 isn’t decentralized the way most people use it. Most NfTs are just URLs. Like most things in crypto it’s just a scam.

The most successful current decentralized systems are probably BitTorrent and Mastodon. BitTorrent arose due to heavy handed copyright enforcement and Mastodon got popular in response to the Musk takeover of Twitter. In both cases these are examples of problems decentralization solves.

If the political situation continues to deteriorate I could see decentralization becoming more popular.

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