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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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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What do you think of the term onchain? https://jacob.energy/onchain.html

this to me though, is the problem with web3 as a term. It can be so many things at once that it’s unclear what people are saying when they say web3. Wrote about this here recently:

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this to me though, is the problem with web3 as a term. It can be so many things at once that it’s unclear what people are saying when they say web3. Wrote about this here recently: https://blog.codybrown.name/p/language-is-a-map

Onchain is good but it doesn't capture all the principles we care about. Things can be onchain but be centralized or not have a notion of user ownership baked in. Web3 to communicates user ownership of the internet.

Onchain is good.

@jacob you might link this tweet in your post. It makes it a trilogy!

Onchain is good.

@jacob you might link this tweet in your post. It makes it a trilogy!

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1301991366935769088?lang=en

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.

I like onchain … but it’s a little too early to use in mixed company and be understood