cody
@codyb.eth
Has web3 lost its usefulness as term for you personally? When youāre 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 donāt 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 š”
@john
I donāt have a gripe with either term, but if youāre making an argument about making crypto more accessible, I think itās worth pointing out that my grandma reading the paper would at least have an intuition what āon-chainā means, but have no idea what āonchainā means.
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John Palmer š”
@john
My gripe is with the argument that āonchainā is making this space easier to understand or better. It feels like an insiders / cultish thing at this stage. āOn-chainā is the bridge that helps you get to āonchainā 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 āfree software movementā to open source move in the 90s. Wrote about it here: https://blog.codybrown.name/p/language-is-a-map
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