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I don’t mean to be stupid, but what’s the manifesto? All I get on this page is a form to sign the manifesto. The actual manifesto is…what?

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>All I get on this page is a form to sign the manifesto. The actual manifesto is…what?

At the top of the page is a black box with white text that has the following pseudo-math propositions:

  web3 = decentralisation + blockchain + NFTs + metaverse
  web0 = web3 - blockchain - NFTs - metaverse

So it's playing on the arithmetic of '3' in "web3" minus '1' of blockchain minus '1' of NFT minus '1' of metaverse -- so the final math equation equals 0 -- which is the '0' in "web0".

And then the black text on white background then has: "In other words, web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit."

I don't think there's really any more to it than that.

Still feels like it's missing a statement of some kind. Those are the definitions, fine. But it needs something like "We the undersigned pledge to [not buy NFTs / downvote Blockchain posts / promote alternative means of decentralization / etc]"

Currently the signature is basically just a "like" on a funny tweet.

If only there was a trust less way to sign something on behalf of a person, project, or organisation. /s

Instead of hating "web3" for all the bad actors using it, why don't we embrace web3 for what it can be? I see so much potential for it to replace all the current social logins that everyone hates, all the awkward digital (PDF) contract signatures, and ad ridden blog spam that could be funded with digital microtransactions.

The manifesto is "crypto is bad and weird and scary to me". Yeah yeah, decentralization... How, exactly? You run your own server? Is that decentralization?

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