Web3 Is More Centralized

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Medium

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Mirror Web3 Tools

I've tried Mastadon and Matrix (using Element). I think they're two of the best examples. But I think for none of these have quite nailed the UX of existing social networks (Mastadon's not quite as good as Twitter and Element is not as feature-rich as Discord). I really think it's as much of a UX problem as a technology problem and not enough decentralized projects have top-tier UX and UI talent to compete. Mirror (https://mirror.xyz/) is an interesting Web3 alternative to Medium. I think they have gotten a lot of the elements right. Blog posts are backed up to Arweave perma-storage and they have easy point and click integration for crypto donations (with automatic splitting for multiple authors), NFT auctions, and crowdfunding. At any rate, I think decentralized social networks are still nascent and we haven't yet seen a break out success on the level of Discord or Twitter or Facebook, but I remain optimistic that it will come.

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Yes, you should. None of those things are the web. Here's Wikipedia's definition of the web: > <i>The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.</i> The only one of the three you referenced that has anything like that is IPFS, and it's missing large chunks of the web experience we know. Sorry, but a crypto wallet and a data structure simply have nothing to do with the web in any sense that word has ever known.

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