Decentralization & Desire: A web3 Cultural Blueprint

Decentralization & Desire: A web3 Cultural Blueprint

We’re building Metalabel with these primitives because it’s hard for us to see why we would, in 2022, make a web product that would trap a creator’s work in a walled garden, that wouldn’t offer utility beyond our walls, and that wouldn’t share value with the people who create it. These are radical and important goals — radical in a way that many cr... See more

Finally, I touch on a few other conceptual opportunities (DeFi, the economic self, and the power of pseudonymous identities), identify some cautions and concerns about the intersection of web3 and the social sector, and conclude with a list of ventures, solutions, and other things that maybe should be built in the future.

Some claim web3 is about ownership, but it is more appropriate to say that web3 is about wealth. Very little in the web3 advocacy space addresses how it will match Web 1.0 and 2.0’s successes in terms of discoverability and sharing. It offers little by way of guarantee that it will protect its users' digital rights, in some cases making them much w... See more