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@Torfinn @risottobias @EposVox yeah, I'm uncertain how you tell the difference. I really thought 'web3' was synonymous with 'blockchain'.
So is SyncThing web3?
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@mav @risottobias @EposVox to be fair this is an argument people building have all the time. Where is this project at in a x, y, graph of decentralized/distributed vs centrally usable. It never ends. There are endless vectors to explore in this topic.  @Torfinn @mav @EposVox web3 is anything that attempts to use coins and hype itself (ipfs is halfway there with ipns) - kinda like fediverse is activitypub Self hosted things like syncthing or tor or ssb just say "this is my public key, this is my router, say hello" So: radicle is a distributed git server, that uses both ssb (as a transport protocol, which is fine) and ethereum (well, "rad") as a governance token - so yes it's a wasteful blockchain |
@mav @risottobias @EposVox id never looked into this but this doesn’t seem much different than a distributed hash table at least in principle. So if I were forced to describe this I’d call web2 tech stack leveraging a web3 primitive with the block protocol they describe. We do something like this with our IPfS network indexer building a blockchain if announcement messages leveraging mostly web2 stack but a web3 primitive