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Frankly, it isn't weird to pay to access a scarce resource. Now we're paying with our personal details... paying with other means might turn out better for soci
by Beldin 4y ago
Frankly, it isn't weird to pay to access a scarce resource. Now we're paying with our personal details... paying with other means might turn out better for society.
- quickthrower2 4y agoBut would you spend $10 to say that? Or just register your own domain and say whatever you like forever :-)
- williamcotton 4y agoYou can stand in the middle of the wilderness on a soap box distributing pamphlets or you can stand in the town square on a soap box distributing pamphlets.
- quickthrower2 4y agoA new twitter account by joe average is also wilderness. This is more a case of “famous guests on talkshow” than “London’s speakers corner”. It is marginally easier to get a twitter following. But yoursite + (youtube, facebook, reddit etc.) can build a following too.
- williamcotton 4y agoThat it is marginally easier shows that a digital town square is some kind of natural monopoly, doesn’t it? FWIW, I deleted my Twitter and Facebook accounts in 2016 and it has felt somewhat like I’m living in the digital wilderness, to the benefit of my mental health! There is still a cost to living up yonder in them hills.
- birracerveza 4y agoNo, but I would spend $0.0001 to post a comment, which is what it would cost on basically any other chain that isn't ethereum
- quickthrower2 4y agoAh yes the (even more) centralised and vc subsidised chains! Or we could accept the centralisation and use postgres.
- birracerveza 4y agoOr you could accept progress and decentralisation and use the "centralized" chains instead, which are still much less centralized than anything else in the current web. Unless you love walled gardens, in which case why yes, postgres sounds like a good idea.