So, web3 regularly gets updated into the front page, only to be utterly trashed in the comments session.
What gives?
What gives?
There is a different group here on HM that REALLY hates it all. It was interesting technologically but then it started producing more CO2 and using more energy than reasonably sized countries. It also seems to be the method du jour for scammers to take money from people. It’s almost single handedly enabled the ransomware industry.
And people like to shit on the current hot thing, deservedly or not.
So here we are.
I visit other sites where I can honestly say their users are honestly ignorant, given their lack of technical understanding. But here? This is sad to watch. If crypto/blockchain/web3 continues the current trajectory (or bitcoin goes to 100K), it will be worse, because the proud/bitter HN user will never admit to themselves that others can "get it" even though "I didn't get it".
I think the almost religious zeal makes it much worse. People win the lottery but they don’t claim to be geniuses or representatives of a shining new utopia for it. They just say they won the lottery.