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You can use a technology without agreeing with the views of other users of the technology. You don't have to follow those people.
by chr15m 2mo ago
You can use a technology without agreeing with the views of other users of the technology. You don't have to follow those people.
- inigyou 2mo agoThese things have more effects than you think. IPFS just lost all funding because the NFT craze is over and they didn't find any alternative grift. That means the public gateways and general knowledge of the project will fade away and there won't be maintenance on the software.
- chr15m 2mo agoIPFS did not lose all funding. Please check your facts. IPFS has largely failed to find adoption as a protocol because it was over engineered and did not give users what they want. People don't want decentralization. What they want is the downstream effects of decentralization like privacy, disaggregation of powerful entities, and permissionless participation. For a protocol to be adopted it needs to give individual users these things in practice, not simply be "decentralized" in design.
- inigyou 2mo agoPeople don't actually want any of those things either. People want to click on a button and see the dancing bunnies.
- sph 2mo agoNo virtue signaling? In the social media age? How else would I get upvoted to the top of the comment section? But then they don’t have no issue giving money to powerful people that likely don’t share their righteous worldview.