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Diana Coman

Why is it "better to have more choices in tech" ?

Note that people are never (nor will they ever be) tired of scams, no. The reason for this is simply a psychological one - there will always be people who believe the lie that they like at the expense of the reality that they don't enjoy.

What are those "uses for blockchain" you have in mind precisely?

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Vuild
  1. There was a time where Microsoft wanted to own the web. Competition prevented that.
  2. We currently have one search engine & it is fomenting division.
  3. We have 2 mobile OS.
  4. Imagine one company called "Internet".
  5. I like different tech to you.
  6. I like lots of choice myself & for others. Why not?
  7. The tech establishment is about to be revealed for what they have been up to & it's almost all bad. Their cheerleaders & connections too.
  8. I try not to use things that are against my principles unless I am forced to. When forced, it gets destroyed (as it was not built to withstand forced usage).
  9. Look at the youtube deplatforming.
  10. Single point of failure.

There's more, but that's enough & it's kind of obvious why choice is a good thing.

On crypto:

  • What if the main repo is compromised.
  • BTC has choice. Forks.
  • Governance. Ownership. Price.
  • Who needs one currency to rule the world? Pass.
  • Like evolution, trying different things is good.
  • There are way more scams in tech or biz than in crypto.

I don't need other people to decide for me, Govs? corps? gatekeepers? Some 28yr old who thinks they hit gold because they built a site or tech product? No thanks.

Uses for blockchain or crypto?

  • BAT/brave, Steemit, everipedia, creary. Smart money, contracts, decentralization, Destroying gatekeepers (do you think dev to lasts as a big community owned by a couple of people or that a decentralized version comes along very soon & appeals more to people due to all the deplatforming. The traffic numbers are very clear already.
  • Payment systems, inventory tracking, project funding, contribution payments, archiving, automation.

That's a few.

Scams are a tiny part of the whole ecosystem. Unpaid user generated content (like what we are doing here & everywhere is a bigger scam).

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Diana Coman

So come over on irc and/or blog and stop giving in to the scam because re unpaid user generated content you are totally right.

I'll happily continue the conversation either on my blog or in the irc channel.

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Vuild • Edited

Hehehe smooth. Done. Show me a thread on your site.

I only came back because a whole bunch of people forgot their positions & correction is needed. I always appear before that correction to see if course correction is possible.

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Diana Coman

Pick and choose from ossasepia.com perhaps the outreach category would be of most interest to you ( ossasepia.com/category/dark-modern... ) The thick discussions happen in the forum though - you'll be able to read/skim the logs.

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Vuild

Interesting. Subscribed (rss).

I dropped a link that will appear here (it's in the scheduler to remind me to check back) vuild.com/ossasepia (404 rn). I'll be over to comment when I have a bit more time.

Is there a video of your Reading talk?

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Diana Coman

Sadly no video, no (though you are on to something there, so at next talk I'll plan to get the video too).

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Vuild

Cool. I'll read for now.

What is Minigame?

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Diana Coman

Minigame is Eulora's producer, listed on MPEX as S.MG. From my blog if you read around, you'll surely find all the info on it and on Eulora too.

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Vuild

Thanks.

btc mmorpg. That is very interesting, 3D decent worlds are one of the main things I am looking at. I'm reading. 👍