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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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Having to deal with crypto means having to deal with crytpo bros

The internet was also a better place when people using it were more open minded

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Open minded to being scammed? No thanks.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your argument sounds like "pc are bads because of virus"

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If 99.9% of PCs were solely made to steal your credit card info, then yes.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most of crypto volume is done on bitcoin and ethereum network which are built to be less scammy than a bank. You could indeed argue that 99.9% of existing cryptocurrencies are scam because there are thousand existing projects that imitates bitcoin, similarly one could argue that 99.9% iphones copies are a scam

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 week ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

How do you know that most active members are men? To me it sound you are being sexist here and judging people by their posts. Also where have you seen rife misogyny? Lemmy community is quite open and there are different instances you can chose each with its policies.

the US is and still is a federal institution.

I don't know much about US government but i believe the US president has some power over states granted by constitution. Bitcoin isn't designed to have a president that can chose for others.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago

you can't be sexist against men since y'all invented sexism to oppress women and trans people. try again

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bitcoin and Ethereum only have liquidity in the market because scammers use it for their pig butchering etc. scams. And all the major exchanges are complicit in that. Many Banks are scammy, yes, but not that scammy by a long shot. Sorry to burst your bubble 🤷

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#crypto

You can support lemmy by donating cryptocurrencies, they are not only used by scammers.