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Discussion on: How to Transition from Web2 to Web3

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leob • Edited

Great post, thanks ... this stood out to me:

"how to prevent users to upload harmful content with a central authority"

This is what gives me the biggest concern - isn't this going to be wild-west and a jungle, without any form of central governance? At least right now with big companies like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and whatever, governments know whom to talk to when there are problems with content on their platforms ...

Also, we may scoff at those big companies, but for sure their business model provided a clear rationale to invest and to build out their platforms ... with web3, "where's the money"? Who's going to propel this forward if companies can't make the money that they were able like with web 2 ...

The main reason why I'm sceptical about web3 is that I wonder what problem it really solves - I don't see the control of my data or account by big companies as a huge problem, as long as those big companies are also being regulated and held to account. That makes the basic premise of web3 a bit questionable in my view - to me it sounds like a solution in search of a problem.

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Dany Tulumidis

Great comment! Yeah the thing with the harmful content is something we have to think about. There are solutions like making a proposal to delete something so every user can vote to delete harmful posts but how to prevent something even before uploading? I think AI and Machine learning could be interesting to achieve something like this.

"Wheres the money" is not the problem because on the Blockchain everything is public. You can see where the money is and i think thats a big advantage => no bribes