[mediocregopher]

I don't think that's what web3 is, that's just one direction some are taking it. Web3 is a move away from centralized platforms to ones which are either decentralized or more directly controlled by users (self-hosted, federated).

> Like anything blockchain there is no real solution for how to handle records becoming stale over time without a central authority that manages disputes.

I don't understand this part. In pretty much every decentralized name system I've seen a user pays to own a name for a period of time, there's no stale records.

[andybak]

"Web3" has been fully co-opted to be blockchain related.

Any former meaning is now drowned out by that definition, whether you like it or not.

[BeetleB]

> Any former meaning is now drowned out by that definition, whether you like it or not.

Random pronouncements on HN don't make it true. If you want to restrict your understanding of the term, by all means do so. But don't expect others to follow suit.

[etchalon]

We can have self-hosted, federated web sites with Web 1.0 technology.

[sli]

I used to use this obscure little piece of software for that called Apache. Maybe y'all have heard of it. Though I think it's getting some competition from this unknown little project called nginx. Really looking forward to that stuff becoming mainstream, it'll be revolutionary.