Merge branch 'develop' of git.lumeweb.com:LumeWeb/lumeweb.com into develop

src/components/Home/CTO/CTO.astro

@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ import abstractBg from "/src/assets/single-brand-bg-1.png";
       Community-Powered
     </h2>
     <h3 class="font-display text-4xl md:text-6xl font-bold">
-      Building a new world for your data
+      Building the open, user-owned web you deserve
     </h3>
     <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
-      Right now, Lume has only one full-time developer and limited helper staff!
-      We need help from developers, fundraisers, funders, and contributors to
-      bring the new web to the masses.
+      Right now, Lume has only one full-time developer, a few freelancers, and
+      limited helper staff! We need help from developers, fundraisers, funders,
+      and contributors to bring the new internet to the masses.
     </p>
     <div class="flex flex-row items-center gap-6">
       <img src={avatar.src} class="w-20 h-20" />

src/components/Home/Meme/Meme.astro

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-import mulletMeme from "/src/assets/centralized-mullet-meme.png";
+import mulletMeme from "/src/assets/mullet-meme.jpg";
 ---
 
 <section id="meme" class="tilted-bg">
@@ -8,29 +8,30 @@ import mulletMeme from "/src/assets/centralized-mullet-meme.png";
       <h2
         class="font-display text-primary font-bold text-xl md:text-2xl uppercase"
       >
-        BUSTING THE DECENTERALIZED WEB3 MYTH
+        Busting the Decentralized Web3 Myth
       </h2>
       <h3 class="font-display text-4xl md:text-6xl font-bold">
-        The Centralized Mullet
+        The Decentralized Mullet
       </h3>
       <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
-        Right now, despite many claims, a majority, if not all, the services
-        that build the legos of Web3 are actually centralized, both with what
-        you can see and what you can't.
+        Right now, despite many claims, a majority, <b>if not all</b>, the
+        services that build the legos of Web3 are actually centralized, both
+        with what you can <b>see</b> and what you <b>can't.</b>
+      </p>
+      <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
+        While some <b>blockchains</b> may be more <b>decentralized</b> than others,
+        access to nearly every blockchain is also
+        <b>centralized</b>.
       </p>
 
-      <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
-        While some blockchains may be more decentralized than others, access to
-        nearly every blockchain is also centralized.
-      </p>
       <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
         So consider this a call to action for our community to go back to ethos
-        and make Web3 real.
+        and make Web3 <i>real</i>.
       </p>
     </div>
     <img
       src={mulletMeme.src}
-      class="w-[500px] xl:w-[550px] max-h-[650px] self-center"
+      class="w-[500px] xl:w-[650px] max-h-[550px] self-center"
       alt="Web 1"
       style="padding-bottom: 3em"
     />

src/components/Home/Message/Message.astro

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 ---
-import './Message.scss';
+// import './Message.scss';
 ---
 
-<section id="message">
-  <h2>
+<section id="message" class="bg-primary py-16 px-28 space-y-4">
+  <h2 class="text-3xl font-bold text-black font-display">
     A message from Derrick
   </h2>
-  <p>
-    Some of the world's largest online threats right now are censorship of speech <i>and</i> money. Web3 represents unifying many legos to create a truly user-owned web. Decentralization is a means to an end, not the end itself. The true goal is that you are in control of your personal web, and no one else.
+  <p class="text-2xl text-black font-body">
+    Some of the world's largest online threats right now are censorship of
+    speech <i>and</i> money. Web3 represents unifying many legos to create a truly
+    user-owned web. Decentralization is a means to an end, not the end itself. The
+    true goal is that you are in control of your personal web, and no one else.
   </p>
 </section>

src/components/Home/Vision/Vision.astro

@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@
     Our Vision
   </h2>
   <h3 class="font-display text-4xl md:text-6xl font-bold">
-    Make Web3 easy for everyone
+    Enable an open, censorship-resistant web
   </h3>
   <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
-    Web3 offers freedom of speech, data sovereignty, and privacy. We simplify
-    Web3 by bridging the gap between the two webs, enabling easy usage without
-    censorship or backdoors over your personal web.
+    Web3 is the next evolution of the internet that combines many legos from
+    past decades.
+  </p>
+  <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
+    Benefits include internet <b>freedom</b>, <b>privacy</b>, and <b
+      >ownership</b
+    > over your personal web.
   </p>
   <div class="pt-10 w-full">
     <a

src/components/Home/Web3/Web3.astro

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
-import gfxLeft from "../../../assets/home-gfx-left.png"
+import gfxLeft from "../../../assets/home-gfx-left.png";
 ---
+
 <section
   id="web3"
   class="flex flex-col lg:flex-row lg:bg-transparent lg:p-0 gap-10 mx-10 sm:mx-20 xl:mx-40"
@@ -18,9 +19,15 @@ import gfxLeft from "../../../assets/home-gfx-left.png"
       Why Web3 matters
     </h3>
     <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
-      Web3 gives people control over their data, privacy, and ownership. Lume's
-      affordable Web3 tech aims to speed up the transition from Web2 to Web3,
-      which matters for privacy and security.
+      Web3 often gets mixed up with other terms/buzz words such as "crypto" or
+      "defi". However, the current web you use now is often referred to insiders
+      as "web2".
+    </p>
+    <p class="font-body text-xl md:text-3xl text-body">
+      While Web3 can include many decentralized services, it symbolizes the
+      multiverse, or the entirety of all decentralized & P2P networks. Some may
+      refer to this as the "metaverse", or even "dweb", but we can agree to
+      disagree 😉.
     </p>
     <div class="pt-10 w-full">
       <a

src/components/Home/WebComparison/WebComparison.astro

@@ -25,9 +25,10 @@ import meme4Small from "/src/assets/meme-4-small.png";
       <span class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-5">
         <h3 class="font-display text-6xl">Web1</h3>
         <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
-          Nostalgically recalled for chat rooms and IRC by tech enthusiasts,
-          signifies the era of integrated services like AOL dial-up, providing
-          web access, email, shopping, and chat for mainstream users.
+          Web1 is probably best remembered by geeks as chat rooms and IRC (which
+          still exist to this day, but only to power users). To normal users it
+          was the age of AOL dial-up and similar networks where you got web,
+          email, shopping, and chat all in one place.
         </p>
       </span>
     </div>
@@ -37,14 +38,25 @@ import meme4Small from "/src/assets/meme-4-small.png";
         alt=""
         class="absolute bottom-0 -left-[110px] object-contain xl:-left-5 float-left"
       />
-      <span class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-5">
+      <span
+        class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-5 overflow-y-auto max-h-[400px]"
+      >
         <h3 class="font-display text-6xl">Web2</h3>
-        <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
-          Featuring improved gaming, online apps, and video streaming, was
-          swiftly monopolized by Silicon Valley, creating a top-down system
-          controlled by a few tech elites. Despite innovations, this system,
-          including the broader internet infrastructure like ISPs and domains,
-          regulates your web experience, often citing "safety".
+        <p class="font-body text-body text-2xl">
+          Web2 since evolved with the web browser and we got better gaming,
+          online apps, video streaming and calling and much, much more. However,
+          it also got quickly captured by Silicon Valley and what some refer to
+          as the "tech bros".
+        </p>
+        <p class="font-body text-body text-2xl">
+          So <i>despite</i> the innovation that occurred, it has turned into a top-down
+          system where only a few geeks/CEO's and their investors control your entire
+          web.
+        </p>
+        <p class="font-body text-body text-2xl">
+          This also excludes the wider internet infrastructure of domains and
+          ISP's (internet providers and hosting), who also play a part in
+          controlling your web, be it for your "safety", or other reasons.
         </p>
       </span>
     </div>
@@ -58,31 +70,64 @@ import meme4Small from "/src/assets/meme-4-small.png";
         alt=""
         class="absolute bottom-0 -left-[110px] xl:-left-5 float-left object-contain"
       />
-      <span class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-1 xl:mr-5">
+      <span
+        class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-1 xl:mr-5 overflow-y-auto max-h-[400px]"
+      >
         <h3 class="font-display text-6xl">Crypto/<br />DeFi</h3>
         <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
-          The advent of Bitcoin sparked innovation, but over time,
-          centralization increased. Factors such as the influx of big money,
-          greed, hype, and FOMO contributed to this trend. The introduction of
-          many money legos worsened the situation, leading to boom and bust
-          cycles.
+          We get the birth of Bitcoin and all of the innovation that followed.
+          While BTC and a handful of other chains have remained decentralized
+          both in operation, and access, the innovation over time has caused
+          things to re-centralize.
+        </p>
+        <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
+          This is due to several factors including big money coming in, pushing
+          greed, hype, and "FOMO". The invention of several new logos's causing
+          this to only get worse, creating a classic "boom" and "bust". Human
+          nature tends to be greedy, so over time, money overrode principles.
+        </p>
+
+        <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
+          Many development teams prioritized inventing new ideas and "shipping"
+          them to users, while selling them "tokens" to exit at their expense,
+          all while knowing none of what they created was <i
+            >truly decentralized</i
+          >.
+        </p>
+
+        <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
+          It became one large crypto casino.
         </p>
       </span>
     </div>
-    <div class="relative flex-1 max-w-full overflow-hidden">
+    <div class="relative flex-1 overflow-hidden">
       <img
         src={meme4.src}
         alt=""
         class="absolute bottom-0 -left-[110px] object-contain xl:-left-5 float-left"
       />
-      <span class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-1 xl:mr-5">
+      <span
+        class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-1 xl:mr-5 overflow-y-auto max-h-[400px]"
+      >
         <h3 class="font-display text-6xl">Web3</h3>
         <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
-          Web3 emerged as a buzzword to replace DeFi, but its meaning varies.
-          Despite aiming for decentralization, Web3 relies on centralized
-          crypto/DeFi infrastructure. Money dominates over ideology, driven by
-          funders. A balance is necessary between free markets and public goods
-          to address the current imbalance.
+          What to say about Web3? Honestly... upfront it appeared to get used as
+          a new buzz word to replace "DeFi". Terms like "Web3" and "Metaverse"
+          have many different meanings to many people. It is intended to include
+          more than just money and trading, and yet every blockchain-based
+          system that can be labeled "web3" still builds onto of the same
+          centralized crypto/defi infrastructure.
+        </p>
+        <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
+          The end result is an ecosystem that promotes and <b><i>wants</i></b> to
+          be decentralized, but where money overrules ideology, ethos, and principles.
+          This is in part due to who's bankrolling it all, and thus the incentives
+          to build make it more about the money then about freedom.
+        </p>
+        <p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
+          There needs to be a balance here between free markets/money and public
+          goods/infra, and so far things are way out of wack and need to be
+          fixed.
         </p>
       </span>
     </div>
@@ -93,41 +138,76 @@ import meme4Small from "/src/assets/meme-4-small.png";
   <div class="lg:hidden flex flex-col gap-8 py-10 px-8">
     <h3 class="font-display text-3xl">Web1</h3>
     <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
-      Nostalgically recalled for chat rooms and IRC by tech enthusiasts,
-      signifies the era of integrated services like AOL dial-up, providing web
-      access, email, shopping, and chat for mainstream users.
+      Web1 is probably best remembered by geeks as chat rooms and IRC (which
+      still exist to this day, but only to power users). To normal users it was
+      the age of AOL dial-up and similar networks where you got web, email,
+      shopping, and chat all in one place..
     </p>
     <img src={meme1Small.src} class="-mb-10 w-60 self-center" />
   </div>
   <div class="lg:hidden flex flex-col gap-8 py-10 px-8">
     <h3 class="font-display text-3xl">Web2</h3>
     <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
-      Featuring improved gaming, online apps, and video streaming, was swiftly
-      monopolized by Silicon Valley, creating a top-down system controlled by a
-      few tech elites. Despite innovations, this system, including the broader
-      internet infrastructure like ISPs and domains, regulates your web
-      experience, often citing "safety".
+      Web2 since evolved with the web browser and we got better gaming, online
+      apps, video streaming and calling and much, much more. However, it also
+      got quickly captured by Silicon Valley and what some refer to as the "tech
+      bros".
+    </p>
+    <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
+      So <i>despite</i> the innovation that occurred, it has turned into a top-down
+      system where only a few geeks/CEO's and their investors control your entire
+      web.
+    </p>
+    <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
+      This also excludes the wider internet infrastructure of domains and ISP's
+      (internet providers and hosting), who also play a part in controlling your
+      web, be it for your "safety", or other reasons.
     </p>
     <img src={meme2Small.src} class="-mb-10 w-60 self-center" />
   </div>
   <div class="lg:hidden flex flex-col gap-8 py-10 px-8">
     <h3 class="font-display text-3xl">Crypto/DeFi</h3>
     <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
-      The advent of Bitcoin sparked innovation, but over time, centralization
-      increased. Factors such as the influx of big money, greed, hype, and FOMO
-      contributed to this trend. The introduction of many money legos worsened
-      the situation, leading to boom and bust cycles.
+      We get the birth of Bitcoin and all of the innovation that followed. While
+      BTC and a handful of other chains have remained decentralized both in
+      operation, and access, the innovation over time has caused things to
+      re-centralize.
+    </p>
+    <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
+      This is due to several factors including big money coming in, pushing
+      greed, hype, and "FOMO". The invention of several new logos's causing this
+      to only get worse, creating a classic "boom" and "bust". Human nature
+      tends to be greedy, so over time, money overrode principles.
+    </p>
+    <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
+      Many development teams prioritized inventing new ideas and "shipping" them
+      to users, while selling them "tokens" to exit at their expense, all while
+      knowing none of what they created was <i>truly decentralized</i>.
+    </p>
+    <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
+      It became one large crypto casino.
     </p>
     <img src={meme3Small.src} class="-mb-10 w-60 self-center" />
   </div>
   <div class="lg:hidden flex flex-col gap-8 py-10 px-8">
     <h3 class="font-display text-3xl">Web3</h3>
-    <p class="font-body text-body text-xl">
-      Web3 emerged as a buzzword to replace DeFi, but its meaning varies.
-      Despite aiming for decentralization, Web3 relies on centralized
-      crypto/DeFi infrastructure. Money dominates over ideology, driven by
-      funders. A balance is necessary between free markets and public goods to
-      address the current imbalance.
+    <p class="font-body text-xl text-body">
+      What to say about Web3? Honestly... upfront it appeared to get used as a
+      new buzz word to replace "DeFi". Terms like "Web3" and "Metaverse" have
+      many different meanings to many people. It is intended to include more
+      than just money and trading, and yet every blockchain-based system that
+      can be labeled "web3" still builds onto of the same centralized
+      crypto/defi infrastructure.
+    </p>
+    <p class="font-body text-xl text-body">
+      The end result is an ecosystem that promotes and <b><i>wants</i></b> to be
+      decentralized, but where money overrules ideology, ethos, and principles. This
+      is in part due to who's bankrolling it all, and thus the incentives to build
+      make it more about the money then about freedom.
+    </p>
+    <p class="font-body text-xl text-body">
+      There needs to be a balance here between free markets/money and public
+      goods/infra, and so far things are way out of wack and need to be fixed.
     </p>
     <img src={meme4Small.src} class="-mb-10 w-60 self-center" />
   </div>