Comment by schroeding | Hacker News Reader

Comment by schroeding | Hacker News Reader

Completely OT, but what does this website do? I tried to find out in the last 15 minutes and got more and more confused. Why are there only GAN-faces? Doesn't that clash with the subheader "Accountable Posts"? Or is this satire?

What music is being played to get tokens[1]? And what tokens, like blockchain-tokens? Or is it a internal server-side currency? Why is the music reversed? Why this weird combination of a music-listening website with "public soap box"?

What does "proof of music"[2] mean? Especially this part:

> With this token, you can vote for laws, elect politicians, change personalities, swap images, mate people, chat, stake, buy stuff and more. The world is constantly expanding.

... "mate" people? Like... "mating"? Does that also have another meaning I'm not aware of, like "become best friends"? And "change personalities"? What does that mean?

I'm very confused. No offense please, but is this satire or maybe an art project? ^^

[1] https://celody.com/ Site is linked in the footer of stakedy.com

[2] https://celody.com/about.html

I've also been looking at this website. Their "About" article[1] describes an interesting idea for a forum.

As I understand it - You earn tokens by listening to music on Celody. You can then create posts and when you do you stake some of your tokens. Other users can up or down vote your post by staking their own tokens. The amount of tokens staked up or down, and some kind of algorithm, determine whether the tokens you staked are returned to you or forfeit.

The idea is that if your argument convinces people you should be rewarded and if not, well, not. Perhaps if this runs for a while you will find that people with a lot of tokens tend to be persuasive or insightful or maybe just uncontroversial. Their "About" page specifically says that controversial views will be "slashed" (i.e. have their stakes taken).

1 - https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html

If I understand that correctly it sounds like a recipe for echo chambers even worse than Reddit

I agree that there is something uncanny about this site. I can't tell if I am looking at something genius, like someone describing something real but beyond the limits of my own imagination. Or if I am looking at the work of someone who has gone too far down the rabbit hole.

I came to ask much the same thing; what kind of nightmare hell world is this, where every opinion you express must come with a wager?

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