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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about PeerTube, Loops, Bandwagon, and other platforms in the Fediverse that are geared around artists. I might get flamed for this, and you’re welcome to disagree, but I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce.

Not “Big Capitalism” commerce, but the ability for people to buy and sell things, support projects, and commission their favorite creators to keep making more stuff.

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[-] amino 1 points 3 days ago

lmao, the blockchain that popularized NFTs is less scammy than a bank? touch grass

[-] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Bitcoin and ethereum blockchains are built to be open, public and decentralized. The difference between these and a bank could be compared to the difference between reddit and lemmy. Is reddit a scam? Perhaps not on a large scale but it has all the potential to become a scam once its executives decide to do so. Lemmy is not owned by a single person which makes it way more harder to "control".

[-] amino 1 points 1 day ago

nobody said Ethereum had to be controlled by the state but when most of the influential figures who keep it running, including its creators participated in inflating the NFT ponzi scheme you can't say it isn't a scam because it's "decentralized". BTC and ETH don't meet any definition of decentralization, that's why DAOs failed

[-] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Your argument: lemmy is shit because its creators are communists and it isn't decentralized because most of the traffic is on lemmy.world

BTC is and still is a decentralized project, a few actors gained a lot of power over the network but that is another story, similarly you could argue that a bunch of people run the finance world.

[-] amino 1 points 18 hours ago

Your argument: lemmy is shit because its creators are communists and it isn't decentralized because most of the traffic is on lemmy.world

yes, Lemmy being created by tankies, genocide deniers and tech bros is the reason why most servers are rife with misogyny and incel mentality. that's why women don't feel comfortable participating and most active members are men. the fact that the gender hierarchy keeps reproducing itself all over the fediverse inherently disproves the myth that Lemmy is decentralized (as in abolishing hierarchical power). that doesn't mean that I don't appreciate this experiment for what it is and I definitely prefer the limited freedom of movement I enjoy here compared to the nonexistent freedom on Reddit.

BTC is and still is a decentralized project, a few actors gained a lot of power over the network but that is another story, similarly you could argue that a bunch of people run the finance world.

the US is and still is a federal institution. just because Trump became dictator that doesn't mean that the country is fundamentally flawed and states rights hasn't always been bullshit. just one more election will get our freedom back bro I promise! /s

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