cody
@codyb.eth
Has web3 lost its usefulness as term for you personally? When you’re explaining what you work on to others, do you invoke web3? I know some have ditched it (or never embraced it) but am curious to get more takes here.
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Keith Axline
@kaxline
I do it out of reflex but I don’t like it. Thinking of saying I work in decentralized communities. Wish there was something snappier.
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cody
@codyb.eth
What do you think of the term onchain? https://jacob.energy/onchain.html
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John Palmer 💡
@john
I don’t have a gripe with either term, but if you’re making an argument about making crypto more accessible, I think it’s worth pointing out that my grandma reading the paper would at least have an intuition what “on-chain” means, but have no idea what “onchain” means.
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John Palmer 💡
@john
My gripe is with the argument that “onchain” is making this space easier to understand or better. It feels like an insiders / cultish thing at this stage. “On-chain” is the bridge that helps you get to “onchain” someday. Switch too early and it might never catch on.
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cody
@codyb.eth
All of that is fair. My take is less about the hyphen and more about whether we more actively attempt to move on from web3 as a term. I think there is a related parallel in the ‘free software movement’ to open source move in the 90s. Wrote about it here: https://blog.codybrown.name/p/language-is-a-map
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Keith Axline
@kaxline
To me web3 is so much more than blockchains. It’s about decentralization giving power back to individuals and finally delivering on the promises of the internet.. Farcaster, Chainlink, Streamr, LivePeer … tons of decentralized networks that aren’t blockchains.
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