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Always glad to see funds go to a great and well managed Open source project like Blender! That said, looking up what the hell is 'Decentraland' and how it wor

Always glad to see funds go to a great and well managed Open source project like Blender! That said, looking up what the hell is 'Decentraland' and how it works is to dive into a dystopian nightmare. Cutesy illustrations tell you: 'Decentraland: it's like a second rate RPG, except instead of in game currency you have to use your actual cash to participate in a tech-bro pyramid scheme where each coin has the climate impact equivalent to burning down a substantial area of rainforest'. Blender foundation should insist on getting cash up front ;)

choward 5y ago
I just find it funny that people are using this to escape all the problems of the real world by implementing all the problems the real world has in a virtual world. I do have to give people credit for coming up with one of the most elaborate pump and dump schemes of all time.
dkersten 5y ago
I looked into Decentraland about a month ago (because someone I know was going on about it) and to me it looked like what I remember Cybertown [1] was circa 2000, except with NFT's. I wasn't very impressed, even visually, it looked quite dated. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTown
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vvpan 5y ago
You will only see a dystopian nightmare when that's what you are looking to see. * A DAO is a lot of people who are looking to create common good via small donations and common participation. This was the goal and ideology of Ethereum from the moment it was conceived. And here the DAO is helping out a beautiful open source project that has benefited many people, so Ethereum is delivering on its ideological promise quiet literally and objectively. Very dystopian, right. * What Decentraland is is beyond the point. If you don't like Second Life and all that (I have zero interest personally) it has nothing to do with your argument. People enjoy it and here they are supporting to keep it free (as in freedom). * I do not see how "use your actual cash" is a negative argument here. Having all platforms be absolutely free made the user the product and lead to an actual dystopian nightmare which is the current control of all user data by like two corporations. New methods of governance, monetization and user-owned data are what's needed to prevent a dystopian nightmare. Decentraland is making progress on all of those. All of those, btw, are part of the ideological vision of Ethereum that I mentioned above, so once again - it is doing the intended job. * Climate impact is an old argument, we can argue about it for hours and not get anywhere. But Ethereum is switching off PoW within the next few months and many projects have already moved to L2 which does not rely on PoW consensus for every transactions. Again, you see only the things you are looking for. People coordinating major funding for a large open source project while having democratic say over the platform they are using to you seems like an accidental byproduct but it was the primary goal all these years.

choward 5y ago

I just find it funny that people are using this to escape all the problems of the real world by implementing all the problems the real world has in a virtual world. I do have to give people credit for coming up with one of the most elaborate pump and dump schemes of all time.

dkersten 5y ago

I looked into Decentraland about a month ago (because someone I know was going on about it) and to me it looked like what I remember Cybertown [1] was circa 2000, except with NFT's. I wasn't very impressed, even visually, it looked quite dated. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTown

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vvpan 5y ago

You will only see a dystopian nightmare when that's what you are looking to see. * A DAO is a lot of people who are looking to create common good via small donations and common participation. This was the goal and ideology of Ethereum from the moment it was conceived. And here the DAO is helping out a beautiful open source project that has benefited many people, so Ethereum is delivering on its ideological promise quiet literally and objectively. Very dystopian, right. * What Decentraland is is beyond the point. If you don't like Second Life and all that (I have zero interest personally) it has nothing to do with your argument. People enjoy it and here they are supporting to keep it free (as in freedom). * I do not see how "use your actual cash" is a negative argument here. Having all platforms be absolutely free made the user the product and lead to an actual dystopian nightmare which is the current control of all user data by like two corporations. New methods of governance, monetization and user-owned data are what's needed to prevent a dystopian nightmare. Decentraland is making progress on all of those. All of those, btw, are part of the ideological vision of Ethereum that I mentioned above, so once again - it is doing the intended job. * Climate impact is an old argument, we can argue about it for hours and not get anywhere. But Ethereum is switching off PoW within the next few months and many projects have already moved to L2 which does not rely on PoW consensus for every transactions. Again, you see only the things you are looking for. People coordinating major funding for a large open source project while having democratic say over the platform they are using to you seems like an accidental byproduct but it was the primary goal all these years.