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> Any and all cryptocurrency/blockchain must be avoided. Care to elaborate on that statement? If you ever hope to monetize your decentralized community, how d
by chrisco255 6y ago
> Any and all cryptocurrency/blockchain must be avoided.
Care to elaborate on that statement?
If you ever hope to monetize your decentralized community, how do you hope to do that without crypto? Accept PayPal? Rely on Google for advertising revenue sharing? With the increasing willingness to enforce censorship at the payment layer, it's very dubious to create a "decentralized" community without that key piece being also decentralized.
- amadeuspagel 6y agoI'm not the author, but I guess everyone who runs an instance can monetize it their way, just like email providers - some use ads, some charge money, etc.
- SubGenius 6y agoIt would be up to each instance to figure out how they want to monetize their community, or if they even want to. If there's more censorship at the payment layer, I don't see how crypto will be left alone.
- _peeley 6y agoI'd also like to know the reasoning behind this. It seems like every reason behind supporting decentralized communities would lend one to also support decentralized financial infrastructure like cryptocurrencies. Also strange that one would be specifically opposed to cryptocurrencies, as any criticism of crypto (abuse, kind of communities it attracts, etc) applies just as much to decentralized software in general.