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My read on the advances of blockchain is that it allows monetizing everything on the internet. When the internet started the biggest sell was e-commerces. Soon

by baby 4y ago

My read on the advances of blockchain is that it allows monetizing everything on the internet. When the internet started the biggest sell was e-commerces. Soon after people started dreaming about tipping blogs and webpages, crowdfunding, donating to projects online, charging a fee on Tor, making people pay to message zuck on fb, send money in whatsapp, etc. I think it opens a lot of doors, but gaming is definitely not a door I’m excited to open.

malermeister 4y ago
I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs. This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the internet was when people were just using it to genuinely share their weird interests, before monetization came along and ruined it. I'd rather not have monetization ruin more stuff. Why does everything always have to be commercialized?
- baby 4y ago
  > I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs. I don't agree. There's not one "need" for the internet. The internet, as any technology, enables use cases by being more flexible. Enabling the money feature for the internet will lead to more use cases. > This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the internet was when people were just using it to genuinely share their weird interests, before monetization came along and ruined it. Looking at how big open source is today, or content sharing (youtube, blogs, etc.), I don't think I can agree with you
  - jfengel 4y ago
    I always read that as "wasn't it great when the Internet was mostly nerds exactly like me, and all the things people created had me in their target audience?" There's plenty of "weird interests" on the Internet. More of it than ever. It's harder to find your specific thing... but not that hard. If the centaur furries and left-handed pickleball players can do it, so can you.

by baby 4y ago

malermeister 4y ago

I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs. This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the internet was when people were just using it to genuinely share their weird interests, before monetization came along and ruined it. I'd rather not have monetization ruin more stuff. Why does everything always have to be commercialized?

baby 4y ago
> I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs. I don't agree. There's not one "need" for the internet. The internet, as any technology, enables use cases by being more flexible. Enabling the money feature for the internet will lead to more use cases. > This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the internet was when people were just using it to genuinely share their weird interests, before monetization came along and ruined it. Looking at how big open source is today, or content sharing (youtube, blogs, etc.), I don't think I can agree with you
- jfengel 4y ago
  I always read that as "wasn't it great when the Internet was mostly nerds exactly like me, and all the things people created had me in their target audience?" There's plenty of "weird interests" on the Internet. More of it than ever. It's harder to find your specific thing... but not that hard. If the centaur furries and left-handed pickleball players can do it, so can you.