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The decentralised finance club needs to make their core values poster bigger and easier to understand

We’re here in 2023 and they still forget that the core value of “not your keys not your wallet” is the equivalent of putting your cash under your mattress instead of using a bank and the complexity that comes with that is unavoidable.

You can get more people to use a mediocre product/technology by making it easy to use

People will use complex products/technologies if they are useful enough.

But these people can’t make it useful so they keep banging their head against the wall trying to make it more simple.

It is inevitable that they will try the even lazier route of deceiving people into thinking it is simple.

Nitter: https://nitter.net/evanvar/status/1699032296870015232

edit: changed title to reduce keyword matches in lemmy fediverse searches

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nobody even knows what the fuck web 2.0 actually is. CSS? JS? SPAs? Flash? No flash? Rounded corners? Ad blocker blockers? Sevice workers? Sans serif fonts? Lack of "under construction" gifs?

Web 3.0 is inevitable, not because blockchain or machine learning shit is revolutionarily useful, but because whatever becomes popular will end up being called web 3.0 anyway.

Also annoyed at the .0 BS. Maybe it sounded cool and techy in the 90s but if the major versions are already nonsense, how the hell are you gonna have a minor one?

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think Heydon Pickering summed it up well https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-web-3.0/

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

I never recognised web 2.0 because my first encounter with it was a PM walking up to my desk and asking if I could code in web 2.0

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

here's a stupid meme that might explain my post

freeway exit meme: "make it useful" straight ahead "make it seem simple" freeway exit that "web3" car is taking

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago

I find it insane that people would expect you to connect your crypto wallet with a website. The levels of trust there are crazy.

Best practices maintaining crypto are keeping it offline, air gapped. Definitely not in the browser.