The Real Web3 (opens in new tab)

I gotta stop you right there. This ideology has existed long before Web3 was coined as a term, and much, much longer than it has existed as a concept. Ever since Limewire, Bittorrent and general P2P systems were in use, people were (and are) circumventing that power. The difference is that they're not marketing themselves anywhere; they're not trying to flip a quick buck or turn themselves into The Next Big Thing. Their suitability is entirely predicated on the fact that they don't care about those things, which is directly opposed to the general treatment of Web3 today. Everything is being tokenized, deconstructed and turned into digital stake-claiming. We're all trying to be The Next Big Thing, grasping at straws that don't exist and driving our infatuation with petty vanity to a point where the sheer consensus of who owns a JPEG is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That's not what it means to be digitally native. That's what it means to be socially native in a digital world. Unfortunately for those people, their concepts and ideologies will long outlive the blockchains they're inscribed on, in the form of truly decentralized, peer-operated networks that don't rely on consensus-based ledgers or building a multi-billion-dollar Web3 SAAS. Articles like this strike me as so silly that I can't even take them seriously on premise alone.