https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036350
But if you really want to see the “immune system” shine, mention web3 and smart contracts, and watch the downvotes pour in. Any time one even mentions “decentralized byzantine fault tolerant” anything, an army rises up to repeat anodyne versions of “grift… no one needs it… banks are great…” etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073421
But if you mention any concerns with AI, no matter who or what you cite, the same group goes the other way and always repeats “(insert problem here) has always been possible, there is nothing to see here, move on, AI is amazing, deregulate and let the industry develop faster”:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900155
It’s groupthink at its most obvious, repeatable, always on, and I wonder how much of it is organic.
Don't bother telling people how it works. Show them who's using it and for what.
Oh, and for any kind of "normie" use it must have a decent moderation and anti-abuse system. Which inevitably clashes hard with "decentralized". Bluesky is succeeding because it lives in a contradiction of pretending to be decentralized, but what it really offers is the "pre Elon Twitter" experience. To basically the same people.
> the same group
While there's a certain amount of hivemind, it's rare that you see people directly contradict their own posts here; what you're seeing is different people.
Our thesis is that the client-server architecture is a fundamental flaw in the world wide web's design, which inherently concentrates power in the hands of a few. Freenet aims to be a general purpose replacement for this in which all services are entirely decentralized.
The first non-trivial app we're building will be a group chat system called River[1].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ&t=12m0s
Look around the 12 minute mark when I start to discuss how “the capitalist system” produces centralized monopoilies that extract rents for their shareholders.
I'm all for distributed / P2P social media, but crypto is full of some of the most scammy and downright shameful behavior I've ever seen in my life. Pump and dumps, rug pulls, money laundering. There is a real reason people hate crypto.
To tip it off, crypto is one of the least meritocratic things there is. The longer you've been in it, the more people you've scammed, the more you hype, the "wealthier" you are.
Crypto smells like a shit and vomit sandwich and people immediately turn their noses.
Build P2P social without the crypto angle and you have my attention. I've been wanting p2p (not federated) social media since the 200Xs and the decline of the indie web. Social and news should work like email and BitTorrent, not Facebook or "federated Twitter".
The SEC's answer no questions, sue first, approach to crypto in general made legitimate players afriad to operate, so the space became dominated by those that didn't care about the law.
Do I have your attention now?
Ten years and $1 million dollars later, it’s free to use, but we haven’t started promoting it yet, still testing with paying clients:
Here are some ideas:
Yeah that sounds like a feature, not a bug.
Crypto in general and Web3 as well, all have mostly delivered scams. To the tune of billions stolen from everyday folks. Everything (to within a rounding error) that hasn't been a scam has delivered nothing else but being a speculative asset at best. Everything else has been a barely working toy that's better served by non-distributed implementations of the same thing.
People shit on crypto. government, regulators, and the public, all dislike crypto because the only thing that ever happens to us with it and the only thing we ever hear about happening, is folks losing money to scams.
There's no mystery here. Crypto doesn't need a policy shift. Crypto needs to stop fucking over folks. Yes it's cool technology, yes it also seems to just be a way to part folks from their money.
