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I don’t get the last point. The data is equally available to everyone, you can’t stop which machine it gets assembled into — unless we personally own a system by which *all* our data is encrypted.

“Ownership” of one’s Web 3.0 data is really talking about:

1) The symmetrical custody and ownership of aggregated blockchain data rather than asymmetrical ownership of aggregated Web 2.0 cloud data

2) The public surfacing of operational mechanisms insofar as they are blockchain contract transactions rather than private-sector intellectual property

3) Ownership simultaneity of blockchain nodes (numerous distributed owners) that store data rather than ownership singularity

Marshall McLuhan, a famous media theorist, coined the phrase “The Medium Is The Message.” With Web 3.0, the aspiration is that “The Mechanism Is The Message”— that the substance of digital living can change by changing the mechanisms.

You’re right: Web 3.0 “ownership” is not unlimited user control over their blockchain data. It’s just provides the user with attenuation vectors and transparency vectors regarding the ongoing accumulation and manipulation of that data—vectors nonexistent in Web 2.0.

this, but also privacy-enabling L2s are coming. and with zk, public key cryptography, and wallet gated permissions, users can already have private control of both onchain and offchain data. web3 as a model should be thought of as more than just public, unsiloed data on a blockchain