Rachel E. S. Loesche<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>molly0xfff</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brianmerchant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brianmerchant</span></a></span> Thank you, belatedly, for being one of the few to ever make clear the meaninglessness of the "Web3" term that was going around for a while.</p><p>To put this out there again, as I figure more clarification on it does not hurt: </p><p>There is the scholarly construct, Web 3.0, and then there is the crypto marketing term "Web3".</p><p>The former, again, is a scholarly construct. The latter, again, is a marketing term, used to hijack clout (from vague associations with the Web 3.0 construct) to push crypto grifts.</p><p>Even Richard Stallman did not seem to understand this, as he for some reason gave a keynote at a "Web3" conference where he was asked about crypto and replied, in essence, "Idk. That's not really my cup of tea."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grift</span></a></p>