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		BlueTemplar on Jan 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My First Impressions of Web3 Indeed, it's the point of the article: Web 2.0 was already supposed to be this decentralized nirvana with blogs and peer to peer software like IPFS. And look what ended up dominating ! Some day these new centralized "web3" services will just remove (or very severely restrict) their APIs, just like Twitter and Facebook did. (Hopefully the effect will not be as dramatic on the companies using them...)

detaro on Jan 8, 2022 [–]

> Web 2.0 was already supposed to be this decentralized nirvana with blogs and peer to peer software like IPFS.

That never was a core of how people defined Web 2.0.

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