What is web3? Vernacular analysis of web3 forms

Speaking of web3, many people think it is a scam and cutting leeks. This is because most articles introducing web3 are inseparable from concepts such as NFT, digital currency, blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Metaverse. They are mysterious and mysterious, divorced from our lives, and do not solve our pain points. At the end of the article, the general article teaches us how to speculate in coins, how to buy and sell NFT, and how to cut leeks properly, so most people think that web3 is just deceiving people.

To be honest, I think a lot of things are just hype, and I don’t believe them either.

How many millions of dollars can a picture sell for? Do you want to sell me an air coin? Metaverse? Maybe I have to wait until my son grows up to play?

Regarding what web3 is, each article may introduce it differently. It seems that everyone has not yet reached a consensus on what web3 is. But for ordinary people, we only care about whether web3 solves my pain points and whether it brings me value.

In this article, I will introduce the web3 form that I recognize in plain English, which greatly solves our pain points. I would like to call it the future!

This article will not involve any related concepts such as leek coins (I don’t understand them either), so please feel free to eat them.

The Cage of web2 (the current pain point)

Usually what everyone calls web1 refers to the portal era, where content is created by major portal websites and is available to ordinary users Just as a browser. The data is generated by the portal, and of course the benefits belong to them, and the value flow is correct. Summary: Platform creation, platform ownership, platform control, and platform benefit.

#What people usually call web2 is our current Internet form: User creation, platform ownership, platform control, and platform distribution.

Give some typical examples:

• We created short videos on Douyin, and Douyin owns our videos. Control video distribution, and the income generated indirectly belongs to the Douyin platform
• The social relationships, chat records, circle of friends data, etc. we maintain on WeChat also belong to the WeChat platform, and the income generated indirectly belongs to WeChat
• We purchased goods on WeChat Taobao, and the massive purchase records belong to Taobao. Taobao generates income indirectly by analyzing the purchase records
• ......

## There are many problems with #web2:

• Unreasonable ownership and income rights: It does not comply with the market rules of "who creates, who owns, and who benefits". For example: The dozens of articles I published on Zhihu, official accounts and other channels have no income.
• Platform monopolizes and controls users: The massive content created by hundreds of millions of users is provided to the platform for free, giving rise to the emergence of multiple super giants. In turn, the giants began to control users, for example:
  Major content platforms control the content recommended to users through algorithms
  • The Baidu search homepage is all paid advertising
  • The platform is fragmented, WeChat blocks Alipay, Taobao, Douyin sharing, Taobao does not support WeChat payment, etc.
  • The e-commerce platform is familiar with
  • Content posted in the circle of friends is blocked and only visible to you
• Data is fragmented and cannot be migrated: Even though our control over major platforms has become intolerable, we have no way to change it. Our data is owned by the platform and cannot be migrated. In addition, under the current model, it is difficult to create a White Lotus platform.
  Every time I write an article, I need to publish it on various channels such as official accounts, Nuggets, Zhihu, Github, etc. Everyone’s comments, likes, and attention to the article are all separated and belong to each platform, not to my article
  • I can’t stand the monopoly of WeChat, but I can’t control WeChat’s friends and chat Migrate the content I created such as records and Moments to other platforms
  • I can’t migrate Zhihu’s fans, articles, comments, and followers to Nuggets
  • The music I purchased on QQ Music , cannot be played on NetEase Cloud Music Player
• Privacy issue: Our social relationships, chat records, shopping records, search records and other data are all owned by each Big platforms control them and they can use our private data at will
• Data credibility: The data provided by the platform is not trustworthy, for example:
  My article readings may be all It is false
  • The purchase volume of the product may be false
  • The recommended popular videos may not be really popular
• data Security: Our data is stored centrally by the platform. If the platform hangs up, our data will be gone too.

Personally, I have no idea about many points in web2. To the point of being intolerable, if web3 can solve these problems, then I will be a fan of web3.

Freedom and Development

Based on the market economy, the purpose of web3 must be

User creation, user ownership, user control, and protocol distribution.

In web3, all user data belongs to the user personally, and users can authorize other platforms to access certain types of their own data. Imagine this scenario:

• Social relationships, chat records, real-time chat messages, etc. are managed by me personally. If WeChat does not do well, I will fire him and not give him authorization. I delegated this information to another chat tool with a really good experience.
• The music I purchased was managed by me personally. QQ Music made me unhappy, so I fired him and authorized my music to another music software.
• I personally manage the articles I write, as well as the comments, collections, attention and other data of the articles. Whichever platform has a better experience, I will authorize it to him.

The summary is, whichever software makes me unhappy, I will seamlessly switch to another software and let the software supplier take care of it.

It makes me happy just thinking about being able to fire WeChat’s squid at will. It wasn't possible before, but web3 does bring this opportunity. I think the implementation idea of ​​web3 should be like this:

• The user’s data is stored somewhere. The user has full control over the data. No one can access or modify it without authorization. data.

• The software requires user authorization to access user-specific data.

We require technical solutions that can solve the trust problem for the data storage part. That is, the user fully trusts the data storage party, and no one can access and modify the data without the user's authorization. Centralized data storage certainly cannot meet the requirements. From the current point of view, "blockchain" decentralized technology is very suitable to serve as a trusted data storage solution here. This is why web3 is always tied to the blockchain. In fact, if there are other technologies that can solve the trust problem, it will be OK.

For software providers, it may become lighter in the future. For example, many software may not need a database, and the data is completely brought by the user. What the software needs to do is help users manage data, such as playing music, managing articles, chatting, etc. Software providers must use high-quality experience to attract users, which makes them happy just thinking about it.

Come and learn the front-end, as I said, the front-end is the future! Welcome to follow my public account "Front-End Technology Brick" and learn front-end from me. Hahaha.

Summary

Where there is oppression, there is revolution. web3 allows us to fully control our own data and allows us to use better software. Users will vote with their feet, so why won't it succeed? So I am still determined in the direction of web3. Although this road is really difficult and requires countless people to explore, the future of the Internet must belong to web3!

If someone mentions digital currency, NFT, etc. when introducing web3 next time, then it’s time to cut the leek.

Finally, it should be noted that the definition of web3 in this article is not necessarily accurate. It is purely my opinion as a rookie. In addition, many of the opinions and words in the article come from the Internet. Thank you. internet.

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