Thread by @ntnsndr

Okay, coming out party: I think those of us interested in justice and democracy need to get out of the Web3 talk.

We really should be talking about the DWEB.

This is the work of the commons, not VCs. It is about principles, not mere addition: getdweb.net/principles/

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1473139010197508098

Web3 points back to "Web 2.0," a VC-fueled rebranding of the open Internet into a business model for corporate data harvesting: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-mem…

DWeb comes from the work of the @internetarchive and friends, people committed to nonprofit infrastructure for the common good.

The DWeb Principles are not an uncritical, ra-ra embrace of technology. With their insistence on "humanity" and "ecological awareness," they resist some leading tendencies of crypto and the Web3 scene, which see a utopia in which we are floating partial-bodies in monetized space.

The DWeb idea stresses "human agency" over "autonomous organizations," and insists that what matters is distributed benefits for people, not distributed systems.

This is what we mean by @exittocommunity—not community as in a bunch of financially aligned speculators, but community as in people who care about one another, or as in a commons that serves strangers as much as those we are personally incentivized to like.

But this is not just about being warm and fuzzy, as nice as that is.

DWeb has emerged through the work of a diverse set of activists and technologists, focused more on building around values than business models.

It is a story, not a label: getdweb.net/origin-story

There is definitely something important happening right now, and we have a choice of which story we want to be part of making.

Thanks to #DWeb progenitors like @maira @whanamura @arcalinea @brewster_kahle & many more.