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            <title><![CDATA[Web2 Users vs Web3 Communities]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Its been a crazy ride since I attended to my first blockchain meeting back in 2018 and a lot of things changed since them. I must confess wasn’t so impressed about crypto I mean I know a few things about bitcoin but it seemed so distant to my reality so I heard about smart contracts and all the possibilities I could bring to create an open financial ecosystem. Marcos Schultz was the one who lead the talk that night and I got surprised about how humble and accessible he was. We started to talk...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its been a crazy ride since I attended to my first blockchain meeting back in 2018 and a lot of things changed since them.</p><p>I must confess wasn’t so impressed about <strong>crypto</strong> I mean I know a few things about bitcoin but it seemed so distant to my reality so I heard about smart contracts and all the possibilities I could bring to create an <em>open financial ecosystem</em>.</p><p>Marcos Schultz was the one who lead the talk that night and I got surprised about how humble and accessible he was. We started to talk regularly and he incentivized me to study more about blockchain and he showed a lot of resources and courses that could help me.</p><p>That was the very first day I started to feel part of a community of people who really cares about each other.</p><p>Moments like this remind me why I’m still here trying, learning and building everyday. Ive been part of a lot of groups and never felt so welcoming before. Web3 is a incredible space where people have this strong sense of community.</p><p>No matter how much you know, your background or how old you are, this community will always take care of you and you cant see this on web2.</p><p>I’m 34 and Ive been using facebook, instagram, twitter and other social platforms for years and most of the time you are treated like a number. You are just another user and they want your precious data cause when they sell it they get profit.</p><p>In other words when you use web2 you are the product. I believe most of the people started to realized its not sustainable anymore and the number of users started to decrease or be split to multiple platforms.</p><p>Web3 platforms found the perfect balance between profit and community satisfaction. We have <strong>Daos</strong>, we have open conversations using telegram, discord and AMA and we have airdrops to reward OG’s.</p><p>I can see a bright future for the ones who are getting involved right now specially because a lot of projects are starting to use <strong>Social Tokens</strong> to leverage their communities. The most I read most I get exited about it and that’s why I started to write this blog.</p><p>Everything we don’t like about web2 we can change here in this space and I know for a fact that sky inst the limit anymore. The huge amount of lives changed with cryptos are surreal. Not only cryptos but <strong>NFT’s</strong> and <strong>Defi</strong> too.</p><p>This is the Open Financial Ecosystem and we just started.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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