---
title: "My first impressions of web3"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-first-impressions-of-web3-wwvr-qvz7
source_url: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2022-01-07T22:58:43.407Z
updated: 2022-04-28T02:13:39.754Z
tags: ["blockchain", "nft", "web3"]
reading_time: 16
upvotes: 120
comments: 14
language: en
---

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# My first impressions of web3

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 16 min read · 120 upvotes · 14 comments

## Summary

Web3 aims to decentralize the internet in ways that web1 and web2 did not. The idea is that everyone on the internet would be both a publisher and consumer of content. But that is not what people want – they want to run their own servers. A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@invntiv** · 2 upvotes

> Absolutely fantastic technical analysis of web3 as a platform of protocols. I'm screaming these same misgivings, even if I am excited for the possibilities decentralization has to offer us.

**@serjeel** · 2 upvotes

> thanks for shedding light on current flaws of NFTs

**@thamash** · 1 upvotes

> This article is amazing and learned a lot!

**@samdevelops** · 1 upvotes

> Great article! Thanks!

**@uahnbu** · 0 upvotes

> The thumbnail says it all

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Tags: [#blockchain](https://daily.dev/tags/blockchain), [#nft](https://daily.dev/tags/nft), [#web3](https://daily.dev/tags/web3)

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