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I feel the same way about using nfts to sell jpegs on the internet

by CephalopodMD 2y ago

noman-land 2y ago
What about NFTs as registrations for domain names a la ens.domains?
- spencerflem 2y ago
  much better, for sure. one of very few real valuable use cases i can see for NFTs
  - noman-land 2y ago
    Love you.
- deleted 2y ago
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- packetlost 2y ago
  I think there are some good uses for NFTs (and other token stuff), and this is one. The stupid jpegs thing is just... uhg, it's dumb and it's sad that that is where the technology went.
- talldayo 2y ago
  In principle it's less offensive than the "tulip mania" enthusiasm most people share, but it still suffers for the same reasons. Additionally, people simply might not care enough to register with NFTs - lord knows I don't care enough, and I'm one of the few people capable of doing it. But I'm not worried about getting my domain revoked so... what's the point? To spend money on a vanity label that a grand total of maybe 4 people will ever use? ENS will inevitably butt up against the cryptocurrency problem of having few legitimate use cases and even fewer legitimate users. Outside the e/acc Twitter circles and lolcow online harassment forums, the demand for such an "uncensorable internet" is almost nonexistent.
  - noman-land 2y ago
    What if you were worried about getting your domain revoked? What would you do in that case? What if your domain was your livelihood? I think your claim about low demand could be taken more seriously even as recently as ten years ago but when you include "social media handle" in with "domain" then getting your online identity revoked is an every day occurrence and has been for years for a huge number of people who were not extremists or trolls. Later to be revealed by internal documents to be guided by the hand of the US government under false pretenses. So it's not just extremists and trolls but also, every day people with opinions the government doesn't like who are getting their accounts and content taken away.
jayhartley 2y ago
Absolutely

I feel the same way about using nfts to sell jpegs on the internet

noman-land 2y ago

What about NFTs as registrations for domain names a la ens.domains?

spencerflem 2y ago
much better, for sure. one of very few real valuable use cases i can see for NFTs
- noman-land 2y ago
  Love you.
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packetlost 2y ago
I think there are some good uses for NFTs (and other token stuff), and this is one. The stupid jpegs thing is just... uhg, it's dumb and it's sad that that is where the technology went.
talldayo 2y ago
In principle it's less offensive than the "tulip mania" enthusiasm most people share, but it still suffers for the same reasons. Additionally, people simply might not care enough to register with NFTs - lord knows I don't care enough, and I'm one of the few people capable of doing it. But I'm not worried about getting my domain revoked so... what's the point? To spend money on a vanity label that a grand total of maybe 4 people will ever use? ENS will inevitably butt up against the cryptocurrency problem of having few legitimate use cases and even fewer legitimate users. Outside the e/acc Twitter circles and lolcow online harassment forums, the demand for such an "uncensorable internet" is almost nonexistent.
- noman-land 2y ago
  What if you were worried about getting your domain revoked? What would you do in that case? What if your domain was your livelihood? I think your claim about low demand could be taken more seriously even as recently as ten years ago but when you include "social media handle" in with "domain" then getting your online identity revoked is an every day occurrence and has been for years for a huge number of people who were not extremists or trolls. Later to be revealed by internal documents to be guided by the hand of the US government under false pretenses. So it's not just extremists and trolls but also, every day people with opinions the government doesn't like who are getting their accounts and content taken away.

jayhartley 2y ago

Absolutely