People like YouTube and Facebook for the stuff the algorithm spoon feeds them. They don't want an alternate social media that doesn't' push shit at them. I'm sure you have a better idea than I do about the kind of resources and brainpower that get applied to getting one more click and one more minute of time on site. I really might not be getting it at all but what does web 3.0 offer my aunt Cindy that is better than careful constant stimulus massaged with all the tools of modern marketing and neuroscience? Maybe a hatred of ads and a hatred of the pound of flesh that gets taken is enough to topple the giants but I doubt it.

Distributed storage and computation is another one of the big wins for web 3.0 I guess. This is an extension and derivation of "The Cloud!." "The Cloud!" is just storing or computing on someone else's computer, that's all it is right? So once again the big win is no one will be able to censor you if you distribute you shit on a bunch of random computers instead of Amazon's computers. Will it be cheaper than Amazon? I doubt it. If you don't want to be snooped on you can do all this on your own computer, I guess you can do it on the people's computers and hope for the bet. Once again, maybe I just don't get it but this seems like a not amazing use case.

I could watch this fucking awful video again and try and figure out what's so fucking great, but it's just about unwatchable if you aren't the kind of person that jerks off to corporate orientation videos. The Domain name stuff seems fine, I don't use the domain system Comcast tried to impose on me but it's hardly revolutionary.

I'm fast becoming a luddite who increasingly understand little about the techno nonsense going on around me. I'm still trying to wrap my head around why people are paying tens of thousands of dollars for shitty jpegs and all the indecipherable shit that's happening seems to be intertwined with that kind of nonsense.

twenty years ago people were mocking guys who paid ten dollars for a sword in MORPG, that seems silly but not ridiculous.

Real revolutions that seem exciting to me are things like having a mental health professional show up when someone is in distress rather than a cop, or breaking up the nation. If you are pedophile or a criminal web 3.0 sounds like it might really be the bees knees but I'm just not keeping up and profoundly don't get it.