This is literally the scam of Web3. Just because you name something Web3 doesn't mean it's going to become the next big thing. There is no relationship between the success of Web2 and what will happen with Web3. Do you know how I know that? Because Web3 was coined by Sir Tim Berners Lee in 2006 as the semantic web and it didn't go anywhere.
"Oh well, you see web3 is like web2 + 1 and we know web1+1 was great so web2+1 must be even better". It's an idiots logic.
Feel free to call them whatever you want. They're just words meant to abstract a concept / zeitgeist.
If I were to define the two respectively to someone who had never encountered the terms before, web2 would be the centralization of the early internet ecosystem in order to increase scalability + capture/generate profit funnels with web3 being the corresponding deconstruction back towards decentralization and economic distribution thanks to work on improved consensus algorithms in trustless settings.
But you have no evidence of this. You're just saying "This thing I like will be big because I like it"
Web2 had a lot of stars align to become "the next big thing". (The newfound capacity for advertising, smartphones driving adoption, and the mechanisms for tracking and stealing user data). And none of those stars had to deal with privacy, decentralization, security, encryption, etc. All of these things that we have been trying to get consumers to value and consider for years; are actually antithetical to corporation's profit incentive. The tech industry has tried for a very long time. The concepts behind web3, such as decentralization, are not new. They have been tried, and created, and even somewhat adopted, for a VERY long time. Blockchain is just the new mechanism to try and attack this, but like most things on the internet, the problem is not a technical one: It's a social and economic one.
Until you talk about dismantling capitalism, I don't see web3 as being anything more than a natural cycle of niche internet interest combined with speculative market scams that entrap vulnerable populations into caring about it just long enough for them get burned on the latest crypto rugpull.
Sorry for the late reply, I really wish HN had a notification setting for replies.
I agree, web3 most likely means less profit to the corporation since the majority of economic value will accrue to the token / ecosystem instead. But it's innovate now or be outcompeted inevitably.
The main selling point of blockchains is that they make governance / economic distribution seamless. That's not dismantling capitalism. Much of what enables consensus in a blockchain requires similar incentive mechanisms to function, in my opinion.
"Oh well, you see web3 is like web2 + 1 and we know web1+1 was great so web2+1 must be even better". It's an idiots logic.