I want to start this article by clarifying that I want web3¹, as commonly proposed, to succeed. The ideals that the web3 movement often espouses - transparency of web service logic, privacy and personal control of user data, anti-monopoly - are ones with which I resonate². Unfortunately, there are several common questions that current projects seem unable to answer, leaving me skeptical that they will succeed.

First blog post in a long time. This was caused by combination of four things (most of which I hope to address in more detail in following blog posts):

• My home network starting misbehaving and I was focused more on fixing that than blogging (the first rule of homelabbing - whatever you mess with with, your living partners need to be able to access the Internet, and to work the lights and heating!
• I finally took the plunge in moving this blog from fully AWS-hosted to self-hosted (EDIT: blog post here).
• I got Laser Eye Surgery and was recovering from that (probably won’t be blogging about that, not much more to say!).
• I started writing a post to articulate my confusions or uncertainties about web3, with the intention of understanding it better.