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The third post on the page is coinspam. Nope, I misread, this is a blockchain social network. @aspenmayer, what is interesting about this social network to you

The third post on the page is coinspam. Nope, I misread, this is a blockchain social network. @aspenmayer, what is interesting about this social network to you?

aspenmayer 6y ago
I found it while on Twitter, and thought the space was really expanding rapidly. I thought that their KYC integration combined with a kind of micropayment tipping/boosting mechanism was interesting as a way of both surfacing and rewarding quality content in a transparent, verifiable way. I also posted some recent things about Paras[1], which uses NEAR Protocol[2], both of which I find interesting for the same reasons. Paras allows what seems to me like a self-hosted federated platform with built-in tipping/mining/staking/royalties. Do you find this interesting too? What are you looking at in this space? I’m a learner and hold no cryptocurrency of any kind, nor do I develop for any crypto. I’m just curious about it, and want to share what I’m seeing if it seems like it will resonate with the audience, in this case HN. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737526 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737560
- floatingatoll 6y ago
  What is it about .. “surfacing and rewarding quality content” (I only write like this at work?) .. that makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning and research it and post about it? Is there some personal experience that could help us understand your interest? Have you worked as a librarian? Do you believe in blockchain as a way to overcome discrimination? Have you worked as a newspaper editor and feel that decentralized opinions are a solution to problems you encountered? If so, what were those problems, and how did they make you feel? I can’t tell from your reply if you have any emotions on the topic, or why. You find the topic interesting because of a list of buzzwords, but your reply - while a very well-written set of words - does not contain any emotion with which others can resonate. As a result my initial takeaway is that you’re somehow shilling for coin - profiting somehow from placing this content at HN, If you aren’t, I apologize! But this is HN, and the coin spam is real, and so if you can bring some life to why you personally are jazzed about this - not just referencing the technologies by keyword but actually explaining why they matter to you using feelings words - then that would go a long way towards establishing some authenticity here.
  - aspenmayer 6y ago
    Of course. I nearly mentioned in my previous disclosure or disclaimer that I have no interest at all in these areas, financially or in any other kind of quid pro quo. I don’t receive any benefit from posting, for any of my posts. I just do it because I genuinely don’t learn or reason well in a vacuum, and I don’t know enough about most of my fields of interest to be an expert; I’m a generalist user in most advanced discussions and cutting edge areas of computing at best, and my interests are usually cursory and self-edifying, if not deep-dives. I hope my post was not interpreted as shilling. That’s why I also mentioned other topics I’ve posted about in this space, to show my own hand as well as show that I’m not playing favorites. I’m just here to learn from those whose experience and knowledge surpass my own, and whose skills I care to learn myself. In all honesty, I was having trouble sleeping and was just clicking around on Twitter, found some interesting projects, so I thought, and shared them. There really wasn’t a whole lot of reasoning on my part, beyond my perhaps-mistaken belief that the content was of interest to readers of HN. I’m open to further discussion on this or any other matter. My only motive is to receive and share info, and if I can help, I want to do so.
    - floatingatoll 6y ago
      HN readers are hypersensitive to coin stuff — far moreso than most topics. Thank you for taking the time to reply, it does lessen the concerns somewhat. I think that I'm still very wary of this due to their dependence on blockchain and lack of clear profit model. I wish they had a tech landing page that explained why they're interesting (and not just 'woo blockchain') succinctly.

The third post on the page is coinspam. Nope, I misread, this is a blockchain social network. @aspenmayer, what is interesting about this social network to you?

aspenmayer 6y ago

I found it while on Twitter, and thought the space was really expanding rapidly. I thought that their KYC integration combined with a kind of micropayment tipping/boosting mechanism was interesting as a way of both surfacing and rewarding quality content in a transparent, verifiable way. I also posted some recent things about Paras[1], which uses NEAR Protocol[2], both of which I find interesting for the same reasons. Paras allows what seems to me like a self-hosted federated platform with built-in tipping/mining/staking/royalties. Do you find this interesting too? What are you looking at in this space? I’m a learner and hold no cryptocurrency of any kind, nor do I develop for any crypto. I’m just curious about it, and want to share what I’m seeing if it seems like it will resonate with the audience, in this case HN. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737526 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737560

floatingatoll 6y ago
What is it about .. “surfacing and rewarding quality content” (I only write like this at work?) .. that makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning and research it and post about it? Is there some personal experience that could help us understand your interest? Have you worked as a librarian? Do you believe in blockchain as a way to overcome discrimination? Have you worked as a newspaper editor and feel that decentralized opinions are a solution to problems you encountered? If so, what were those problems, and how did they make you feel? I can’t tell from your reply if you have any emotions on the topic, or why. You find the topic interesting because of a list of buzzwords, but your reply - while a very well-written set of words - does not contain any emotion with which others can resonate. As a result my initial takeaway is that you’re somehow shilling for coin - profiting somehow from placing this content at HN, If you aren’t, I apologize! But this is HN, and the coin spam is real, and so if you can bring some life to why you personally are jazzed about this - not just referencing the technologies by keyword but actually explaining why they matter to you using feelings words - then that would go a long way towards establishing some authenticity here.
- aspenmayer 6y ago
  Of course. I nearly mentioned in my previous disclosure or disclaimer that I have no interest at all in these areas, financially or in any other kind of quid pro quo. I don’t receive any benefit from posting, for any of my posts. I just do it because I genuinely don’t learn or reason well in a vacuum, and I don’t know enough about most of my fields of interest to be an expert; I’m a generalist user in most advanced discussions and cutting edge areas of computing at best, and my interests are usually cursory and self-edifying, if not deep-dives. I hope my post was not interpreted as shilling. That’s why I also mentioned other topics I’ve posted about in this space, to show my own hand as well as show that I’m not playing favorites. I’m just here to learn from those whose experience and knowledge surpass my own, and whose skills I care to learn myself. In all honesty, I was having trouble sleeping and was just clicking around on Twitter, found some interesting projects, so I thought, and shared them. There really wasn’t a whole lot of reasoning on my part, beyond my perhaps-mistaken belief that the content was of interest to readers of HN. I’m open to further discussion on this or any other matter. My only motive is to receive and share info, and if I can help, I want to do so.
  - floatingatoll 6y ago
    HN readers are hypersensitive to coin stuff — far moreso than most topics. Thank you for taking the time to reply, it does lessen the concerns somewhat. I think that I'm still very wary of this due to their dependence on blockchain and lack of clear profit model. I wish they had a tech landing page that explained why they're interesting (and not just 'woo blockchain') succinctly.