1/20 Web 2.0 influencers know little about decentralized blockchains, most blockchain-enthusiasts think most decentralized blockchains are indeed decentralized. Most data relies on #AWS and CF, which is by far from decentralized #leothreads
1/20 Web 2.0 influencers know little about decentralized blockchains, most blockchain-enthusiasts think most decentralized blockchains are indeed decentralized. Most data relies on #AWS and CF, which is by far from decentralized #leothreads
2/20) This is a consequence of what happened after the 2018 boom. Many projects started to adopt and ab(use) keywords like #Decentralized, #Blockchain, #DeFi", #NFTs, and so on. This was misleading and surely giving people the wrong idea.
3/20) As news sites publish items which often only included the success part in their stories of these not-so "decentralized" blockchains, the masses who are too lazy to do their own research (#dyor)
4/20 For example, there was commotion going on about NFT marketplaces that just launched. "NFTs should be in your own wallets, and not sold on a centralized mp", hence the boom at people using and connecting their wallets on #OpenSea
5/20 Not much later, OpenSea is guilty of #censoring NFTs by removing them from the interface on their #marketplace. This is anything but decentralized and a direct contradiction to what they "pretend" to be pursuing "Freedom and openness"
6/20 These #influencers pick up these kind of centralized news items, published by centralized pro web 2.0 websites. These publishers do understand what Web 3.0 is and how threatening it is for their current existence.
7/20 Because blockchain technology is so threatening towards the current controlled Web 2.0 world we are so used to, it is not crazy to think these institutions are deliberately spreading #fakenews or are steering towards the believable lie
8/20 Lies and truths can both be hurtful. But we sometimes forget that spreading half-truths can be far more dangerous and do a lot of damage. Nonetheless, they are being spread. And we need to be wary.
Remember to use #threadstorm for these!
Ah yeah, I added the #threadstorm tag on the last one (which links to the original (but buggy) Thread), wasn't sure to spam the hashtag on *all *threads.
Let's #threads on