Wasn’t it web 2.0? Also, good point, I always thought it was weird. Though it’s kinda obvious it’s about money.
It is
“Web 3.0” is a term used to refer to distributed blockchain-based web services, in case anyone’s curious.
Though with the uptick in Lemmy I wonder if that term will end up being generalized to things like ActivityPub. One can hope.
Honestly i’m pretty sure blockchain just co-opted the web3.0 term, i recall it being used for general decentralization in the past.
at this point let’s just let them have it. we’ll just be web 4.0
It’s Web 2.0 dummy, Web 3.0 is crypto and NFTs
Is Lemmy not also 3.0? It’s decentralized. Tho maybe because it’s still servers/hosting at the end of the day maybe not?
Web 3.0 is literally only a thing I’ve seen crypto people talk about. Decentralized infrastructure has been around for ages without that language, and the only projects I see using Web 3 language is crypto currency nonsense.
If anything, Web 3.0 seems allergic to actually decentralized infrastructure beyond telling people who lose money on crypto exchanges to run their own hardware wallet; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3#Not_decentralised
Imo “web 3.0” is a cool idea in theory, but never quite reached its potential. I posted this elsewhere, but imo the term should be generalized to include non-blockchain decentralization.
