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Molly White perfectly knows how DNS work, thanks for her. Your "just a pointer" links already exists in a lot of places and you won't be able to update them al

by p4bl0 4y ago

Molly White perfectly knows how DNS work, thanks for her. Your "just a pointer" links already exists in a lot of places and you won't be able to update them all. In a few days who knows who will buy the domain and what will become of it, and where all these already existing links will point to.

status200 4y ago
I highly doubt that, since they just want to dance around an imaginary problem, and you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform. Imagine if they put the same amount of effort into ridiculing old growth logging, strip mining, tax evasion, wealth inequality... literally anything but trying to dunk on some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system. This is why the problem solvers benefit the most in the early days, and why my early investments in ETH are still worth 3100% more than when i started even after the latest corrections. It is easy to recognize issues, but putting effort into actually doing something about it is where new developments actually occur.
- p4bl0 4y ago
  > some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system Okay, this is really not what's at play here. I would highly encourage you to read The Politics of Bitcoin by David Golumbia, and will not participate further in this discussion with someone who has personal investments at stakes and who can therefore not be neutral and is already using fallacious arguments (no one said "broken link = broken platform", you're the one making this up) and ad hominem accusations.
- lightedman 4y ago
  "you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform" Why? It's basically been like that since the days of Geocities. More broken links, more people go elsewhere to find what they are looking for, now you no longer have traffic because people know they can find the information in a more reliable fashion elsewhere, and now you fail because you don't have enough traffic and actual customers providing that traffic to keep business going.
riffic 4y ago
this is exactly why a lot of people should have problems with link shorteners based around shady country-code top-levels like .ly and .to
- ca98am79 4y ago
  I agree that people should have issues with link shorteners, but .ly and .to aren't shady country-code TLDs
  - riffic 4y ago
    .ly is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya .to is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the island kingdom of Tonga. Are you disagreeing with my use of "shady", or something else in particular? .io is a shady ccTLD too, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.
    - ca98am79 4y ago
      yeah I was disagreeing with your judgement of .ly and .to as shady. I've worked with people at registrars and the registry for these ccTLDs and they are nice people and I don't think they have done anything shady. I can understand why .io may be considered "shady" because it was assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory but the native people of this region didn't receive anything from .io.
      - riffic 4y ago
        no knock on the ccTLD registry itself but Libya's government is in a provisional state. who knows what its future will be and there are many other ccTLDs in a similar place.
        riffic 4y ago
        I think "shady" is justified. I had to go back and look and yes, when Bitly was founded in 2008, Libya was still ruled by Gaddafi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_Libya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_Libya also followed the link and yes the government has seized one other shortening service which used .ly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly#Alternative_domains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly#Alternative_domains https://www.pcmag.com/archive/libya-seizes-url-shortener-vbly-255360 https://www.pcmag.com/archive/libya-seizes-url-shortener-vbl... We can say it's different now or something but I wouldn't put money behind it.

by p4bl0 4y ago

status200 4y ago

I highly doubt that, since they just want to dance around an imaginary problem, and you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform. Imagine if they put the same amount of effort into ridiculing old growth logging, strip mining, tax evasion, wealth inequality... literally anything but trying to dunk on some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system. This is why the problem solvers benefit the most in the early days, and why my early investments in ETH are still worth 3100% more than when i started even after the latest corrections. It is easy to recognize issues, but putting effort into actually doing something about it is where new developments actually occur.

p4bl0 4y ago
> some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system Okay, this is really not what's at play here. I would highly encourage you to read The Politics of Bitcoin by David Golumbia, and will not participate further in this discussion with someone who has personal investments at stakes and who can therefore not be neutral and is already using fallacious arguments (no one said "broken link = broken platform", you're the one making this up) and ad hominem accusations.
lightedman 4y ago
"you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform" Why? It's basically been like that since the days of Geocities. More broken links, more people go elsewhere to find what they are looking for, now you no longer have traffic because people know they can find the information in a more reliable fashion elsewhere, and now you fail because you don't have enough traffic and actual customers providing that traffic to keep business going.

riffic 4y ago

this is exactly why a lot of people should have problems with link shorteners based around shady country-code top-levels like .ly and .to

ca98am79 4y ago
I agree that people should have issues with link shorteners, but .ly and .to aren't shady country-code TLDs
- riffic 4y ago
  .ly is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya .to is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the island kingdom of Tonga. Are you disagreeing with my use of "shady", or something else in particular? .io is a shady ccTLD too, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.
  - ca98am79 4y ago
    yeah I was disagreeing with your judgement of .ly and .to as shady. I've worked with people at registrars and the registry for these ccTLDs and they are nice people and I don't think they have done anything shady. I can understand why .io may be considered "shady" because it was assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory but the native people of this region didn't receive anything from .io.
    - riffic 4y ago
      no knock on the ccTLD registry itself but Libya's government is in a provisional state. who knows what its future will be and there are many other ccTLDs in a similar place.
      - riffic 4y ago
        I think "shady" is justified. I had to go back and look and yes, when Bitly was founded in 2008, Libya was still ruled by Gaddafi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_Libya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_Libya also followed the link and yes the government has seized one other shortening service which used .ly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly#Alternative_domains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly#Alternative_domains https://www.pcmag.com/archive/libya-seizes-url-shortener-vbly-255360 https://www.pcmag.com/archive/libya-seizes-url-shortener-vbl... We can say it's different now or something but I wouldn't put money behind it.