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Lemmy and Mastodon feel like the real web3. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by kiriakos@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars "web3"

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[-] TinfoilBeanieTech@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Proof of Stake will keep actual resource costs maintainable, and Blockchain does do some cool stuff for decentralization, and therefore federation. Right now Lemmy instances are tied to DNS. Hopefully in the future they will be tied to cryptographic assets. Distributed Autonomous Organizations are a great example of the potential.

[-] Faendol@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

What advantage would switching to crypto have? I'm not well versed in how Lemmy works yet but I don't see why Lemmy would need blockchain.

[-] NorfolkingChance@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Because Crypto desperately needs new fodder for the bottom of the pyramid

[-] democracy1984@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Blockchain is basically a write only database. It's great for stuff like financial transactions, but it's not really necessary for something like Lemmy.

[-] phr0g@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Blockchain/proof of work is indeed not necessary, but identities should not be bound to instances. That's the thing #nostr gets right and the #fediverse doesn't.