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>>ziggab+(OP)
My understanding of web3 is based on the idea of P2P first, and removing cloud based services as much as possible. Effectively torrent, IPFS, etc. I don't understand why people conflate currency (which HN despises) with that concept, because it's not a necessary aspect. Also, this post doesn't really say anything at all about the tech, or solutions they provided in their company, but simply complains that the marketing folks didn't provide anything. Shouldn't that have been their job as a dev? You can't complain about an idea taking off that you were supposed to develop and simply didn't. If it was a bad idea, then change it and do something else.

Old man yells at cloud.

>>chaxor+u6
I share the same sentiment as other commenters, my issue is that web3 got inextricably attached to blockchain-something. Even IPFS which I think is a very interesting idea got a "Filecoin" attached to it under the same company, while the idea of decentralisation is appealing, the blockchain side got a bad rap after multiple years of large scams being pulled using the platform.

Unfortunately most people require trust to get into something new and unknown, and the "web3" moniker has lost that ages ago. Sometimes a rebrand of the best of the crop is not a bad idea, we need a filter to all the bullshit that was bombarded around this the past decade... I was excited by it in 2012, I'm exhausted to wade through all the bullshit by now, so I simply ignore it until the signal to noise ratio gets better.