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There are several oversimplifications to watch out, but still interesting.

  • Torrid
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    42 years ago

    yeah there’s not really a need that it fulfills that something already existing doesn’t already do better lol

    • @ailiphilia@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      What dies “better” mean? If everything is stored on a single server owned by this one company in Mountain View or so, is it better then?

      • Torrid
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        22 years ago

        the problem with that argument is that you’re implying that blockchain maintainers are infallible which we know is also not true

        it’s the issue of reinventing the wheel. Do we have a solution that is more energy efficient and affordable for the average user to participate in? yes.

        • @ailiphilia@lemmy.ml
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          12 years ago

          Nothing and no one is ever infallible. What I say is that the web as we know it is broken in that it has become a walled garden controllled by a few companies. And, yes, a lot of web3 doesn’t appear to change that, it’s just old wine in new bottles. We needed to discuss alternatives to different use case (payment and currency systems, how we monetize apps and other products, data hosting and sharing,. …). Energy efficiency and affordability are important issues, but I want to have choice and don’t want to become dependent on 5 or so companies in whatever I do. If that means that I have to pay, I’d be fine with that.

          • Torrid
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            22 years ago

            you are literally on a federated platform that does not use blockchain. this seems like the resolution to that issue