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Here's additional context,

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ethlink-service-about-to-go... ("eth.link service about to go offline because domain owner is in prison")

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That’s very informative. Thanks for posting!

> the project has found itself at the mercy of GoDaddy. Welcome to the decentralized web3 we've all been promised!

I admit this had me laughing.

I tend to think the cyber money hyperventilation on both sides ranges from silly to really annoying, but…

Molly White is hilarious and that site is gold.

She’s (intentionally or not) done a bit of an homage to dealbreaker.com, which is roughly “Wall St. is Going Great” and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the above.

Top kek.

Every generation deserves a fuckedcompany.com or two.

I also find jesters and clowns hilarious as well. Some of them don't need to dress up, but just love to professionally complain and grift on top of another grift and point fingers at everyone being an extreme crypto supporter.

Eventually, they will give up just like the other critics did and it will be on to the next one.

In general I agree. The cybermoney hate-kegels that HN practices are, interpreted in the most generous possible way a really loud, really low-signal way for a bunch of people to express the sentiment that they think some tradeable instruments are over-valued, which professionals do by either not buying them, or going short if they're convicted. Less charitable interpretations cluster around old-fashioned sour grapes that a bunch of people lucked into 10^6x or 10^7x type returns, which, in fairness, is hard not to be annoyed by on a human flinch level.

There is another group of people actively trying to profit either financially or in-kind via page views on the very thing they are calling destructive profiteering, and in the least generous possible interpretation, Ms. White falls into that category with this site.

But life is fucking hard at the best of times, and speaking for myself I'm generally much happier and more sane when I keep a sense of humor about things. Her site made me laugh, and was therefore a bargain at the ten minutes I spent chuckling over it.

Don't forget the irony that the decentralized web is now effectively owned by Godaddy, the horrible corrupt company that largely inspired web 3.0 in the first place.

Unsurprising that Molly does not understand how DNS (or ENS) works, and that eth.link is just a pointer. Admitting ignorance for the lulz is not the Web3 diss they think it is.

Molly White perfectly knows how DNS work, thanks for her.

Your "just a pointer" links already exists in a lot of places and you won't be able to update them all. In a few days who knows who will buy the domain and what will become of it, and where all these already existing links will point to.

I highly doubt that, since they just want to dance around an imaginary problem, and you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform.

Imagine if they put the same amount of effort into ridiculing old growth logging, strip mining, tax evasion, wealth inequality... literally anything but trying to dunk on some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system.

This is why the problem solvers benefit the most in the early days, and why my early investments in ETH are still worth 3100% more than when i started even after the latest corrections. It is easy to recognize issues, but putting effort into actually doing something about it is where new developments actually occur.

> some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system

Okay, this is really not what's at play here. I would highly encourage you to read The Politics of Bitcoin by David Golumbia, and will not participate further in this discussion with someone who has personal investments at stakes and who can therefore not be neutral and is already using fallacious arguments (no one said "broken link = broken platform", you're the one making this up) and ad hominem accusations.

"you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform"

Why? It's basically been like that since the days of Geocities. More broken links, more people go elsewhere to find what they are looking for, now you no longer have traffic because people know they can find the information in a more reliable fashion elsewhere, and now you fail because you don't have enough traffic and actual customers providing that traffic to keep business going.

this is exactly why a lot of people should have problems with link shorteners based around shady country-code top-levels like .ly and .to

I agree that people should have issues with link shorteners, but .ly and .to aren't shady country-code TLDs

.ly is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya

.to is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the island kingdom of Tonga.

Are you disagreeing with my use of "shady", or something else in particular?

.io is a shady ccTLD too, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.

yeah I was disagreeing with your judgement of .ly and .to as shady. I've worked with people at registrars and the registry for these ccTLDs and they are nice people and I don't think they have done anything shady.

I can understand why .io may be considered "shady" because it was assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory but the native people of this region didn't receive anything from .io.

no knock on the ccTLD registry itself but Libya's government is in a provisional state. who knows what its future will be and there are many other ccTLDs in a similar place.

I think "shady" is justified.

I had to go back and look and yes, when Bitly was founded in 2008, Libya was still ruled by Gaddafi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_Libya

also followed the link and yes the government has seized one other shortening service which used .ly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly#Alternative_domains

https://www.pcmag.com/archive/libya-seizes-url-shortener-vbl...

We can say it's different now or something but I wouldn't put money behind it.

Well she needs to be as dishonest and ignorant as possible to grift for their Patreon newsletter on their followers.

Even some of the prominent critics, like Stephen Diehl are now grifting by pushing their books, preaching the same thing on their Twitter every day about the absolute and complete desolation of the crypto industry; which just isn't going to happen. Perhaps this individual in question is enraged by all of it and especially by Cardano which killed his private blockchain startup and is on an impossible mission to destroy all of it. (Won't happen)

Like many critics of crypto in the past, they eventually give up as they realize later on that they had wasted their time.

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