Hosted by : @codynhat
Participants : @guolin, @listenaddress, @openworklabs, @autom(8)
We mainly had a discussion around how adoption of Web3 can increase and the use cases that are useful to different users.
- Censorship
- Archiving data
- Switching costs
- Offline capabilities
Discussed the adoption curve. Web3 is still on innovators.
- Textile easy login with email may help adoption
- Even if users could freely switch services and bring their data along, will companies still accumulate user data?
- Autonomous cars and IoT may need p2p networks
- What about 5G networks? The telecom industry is talking all about 5G to help autonomous cars, but not p2p networks
- Autonomous cars communicating should literally mean they are communicating with each other directly, and not going through some server hundreds of miles away
- Mesh networking needs p2p networks
- Consumers don't need Web2 or Web3, they need use cases
- Many Web3 technologies rely on people taking advantage of spare resources (blockchain mining, extra storage, etc). Can this scale?
- What are technologies that need Web3, without being created from Web3 itself?
- For example, blockchains are created from Web3, autonomous cars may need Web3
- Discussed p2p chat apps like Firechat and how they handle network partitions
- Would users adopt a p2p chat app just from the use case of being able to chat in large crowds with poor cell coverage?
- Why would developers use Web3?
- New business models are needed?