The only thing that makes it notable is probably the reason. It's interesting that this topic is so polarizing. Especially where VCs are concerned.
Personally I tweet pro and con Web 3 stuff and every time I tweet something critical I lose on average a couple followers. The Web 3 devotees don't want to hear anything critical.
As an anecdote: I've never blocked someone in my 10 years on Twitter so I'm not sure how "normal" it is.
You've never blocked anybody at all? Or is this excluding obvious scammer accounts and old room mates who you've had a falling out with? I don't block people for their views, but I do block people who have no business knowing where/what I'm up to or dudes larping as hot 19 year old girls asking me to cash app them 40$ for gas money so they can come over
The more important message hinted at in the article I guess is that Web3 is being driven not organically by consumer desire or need but VC backed entities hoping to make it their garden you can play in.
VC backed/owned projects are just one segment, communities often copy and relaunch any project with lopsided conditions (everything from low cost premines to block rewards going straight to VCs), to something that at least gives people a chance to use their own capital and resources at the bottom.
so as the consumers and speculators have a choice, its juvenile to even get into this spat.
Unincorporated community projects have often used code introduced by VC backed projects that have grown much bigger and had greater immediate impact than the VC subsidized codebase.
I’d also love to be a limited partner in Adreessen’s various funds.
That's how I've seen Web3 so far, a shift in ownership from the classical finance world to other groups.
When a new technology catches fire and is pushed so hard by a certain group of people your first obvious instinct should be "ah this technology must shift power into their group" if this was shifting power to a traditionally disenfranchised group that wouldn't be a bad thing and as I understand it for various less stable countries Web3 is helping with that -- not all power transfer is a bad thing -- but here in the US Web3 looks to be a power transfer from the classic finance institutions to VC groups which are not particularly disenfranchised.
I can't say if that's bad or not but I don't think it matters to the everyday person and that may be why Web3 is hard to grasp for a lot of people here in the US because it doesn't solve problems for the everyman and so it looks like business as usual from that angle.
I had the same question, but don’t think you’ll get an answer. Recently I reached out to HN admins to get more info on why something was flagged but never heard back.
@dang, is there a process for determining why something is flagged even if it’s just as simple as “users flagged it for unknown reasons”?
