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I'm pro crypto as a financial tool but everything that uses it for social media seems like a mess.

We already have Mastodon and that works very well without any crypto nonsense. I wonder if this is twitter's attempt to make decentralized platforms look unusable in order to drive people away from them.

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EEE / NIH etc. Not seeing much right now that leads me to be anything other than skeptical about the affair.

Like, Twitter, Inc had 13 years to play some sort of role over at the W3C when ostatus, pump.io, and AP were being written.

> I wonder if this is twitter's attempt to make decentralized platforms look unusable in order to drive people away from them.

You can thank Vitalik for saying he sees utility for social media on the blockchain in his july talk[0]…

I'd rather see indie game devs use nfts for merc/skins/etc in their applications than social media onchain.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28070568

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