Starting to sink in just how much against the FAANG grain Web3 goes. It uses all the Web2 tech, but in haram ways that I don't think FAANG will be able to easily compromise with.
Is it just me or is Web3 congenitally bad at discovery, communications, graphs, and big data? All the things Web2 is great at.
Otoh Web2 is great at: privacy, distribution, collections, and data portability. Everything Web2 sucks at.
Say more about the graphs/big data point? Isn’t that capability implied in the underlying blockchains? You have super granular and highly aggregated data available on all these projects afaik.
I like to approach Web 3 as the rediscovery of protocols. If email was invented in the web 2.0 era it would be a siloed product in a companies walled garden. Not SMTP. Crypto comes into Web3 as an identity layer.. which is important because nearly everything needs identity.
Web3 is not just chains.
IPFS is completely flat and infinite content addressable space where all data is next to each other. With permanent links.
Point to a hash from a chain if you need a time stamp.
Yes, discovery is hard.