> The Web3 crowd are ideologically devoted to building a digital world focused on the removal of greed, power, supervision and censorship. It’s giving digital natives a new identity, purpose and belonging - much like the Aghoris.<p>I gotta stop you right there. This ideology has existed long before Web3 was coined as a term, and <i>much, much</i> 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 <i>don't</i> 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.<p>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.