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What is not understandable here? Crypto is all about decentralization, Community Notes embodies that value (obviously not ideally, because Twitter still can dec
by whitepaint 3y ago
What is not understandable here? Crypto is all about decentralization, Community Notes embodies that value (obviously not ideally, because Twitter still can decide to do whatever).
- tomcam 3y ago[flagged]
- afavour 3y agoIf “crypto values” literally just means “decentralisation” then just say decentralisation. It’s weird to invoke something that adds absolutely nothing to the comparison (unless, say, you’re trying to hype it up)
- whitepaint 3y ago> If “crypto values” literally just means “decentralisation” then just say decentralisation. It's not. I should have added more examples. Another one - how do you arrive at a single truth?
- eric_cc 3y agoA decentralized system that arrives at a shared consensus.
- chipotle_coyote 3y agoCommunity Notes is “decentralized” only in the sense that it’s derived from the collective action of multiple users. Do Hacker News scores embody the values of crypto? If not, why not? Because Community Notes uses more complicated math for its weighting system? How can we make that claim and not end up going back to the early days of Slashdot and declaring its user-driven moderation system to embody the values of crypto? Oh my god, was Commander Taco Satoshi all along? Community Notes is an interesting example of collective moderation, but it’s an example of collective moderation, a long-standing thing that has nothing to do with decentralization as I think most people understand the term. The objection here, I think, isn’t to Vitalik’s interest in it — it’s to the “if all you have is a cryptocoin, everything looks a blockchain” mindset.
- whitepaint 3y agoIt is not about moderation. It is about arriving to ONE truth. That's how it's similar to crypto and different from HN scores.