Hey guys~

-First post here!!! With everything that has been going on lately about APIs (not just in reddit but twitter too) and social media companies becoming greedier and more capitalistic (geez I sound like my communist grandfather), I’ve become more and more aware and sensitized to the matters of: privacy, data navigation, targetted addvertising etc… and down the rabbit hole I went and eventually it led me to adopt some changes to my, how to say? “Net-working” life style (if it’s safe to say).

-One of those changes was going from youtube to odysee (I can leave to imagine how hard that change was for me) and from reddit to Lemmy, and I gotta say, guys I’m loving it here, everyone is doing such a great job of maintaining such a wonderfull and friendly (and most of all informative) ecosystem, and I may be quoting another post here, but this trully feels like the old internet.

-With that out of the way is there any channels (I think they’re called channels? idk honestly) on the fediverse dedicated to learning and teaching each-other about bitcoin, dapps and web3 in general.

Thank you all in advance~

tl;dr: looking for a place on the fediverse dedicated to learning web3 and dapps

  • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

    I can’t speak for everyone here but I for one would very much like to see the field of crypto-scams (i.e. 100% of all crypto-currencies; please don’t argue this point, I have heard it all) finally die along with the centralized social media platforms.

    • ShouldIHaveFun@lemmy.pec0ra.chEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Please don’t argue this point

      This is not a very good argument to defend your point. Nor is it a good explanation of why you have this pretty radical idea.

      But I kind of agree with you though!

    • abs_solution@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think I quite understand what you mean by crypto-scams but I’d very much like to see centralized social media dia as well

      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Nfts, shitcoin, “web3 game assets”

        …All need to go die.

        Just a way for predators to take advantage of the naive and vulnerable.

        • Gadg8eer@lemdit.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I mean, digital “real estate” is definitely a ripoff, yes.

          That said, NFTs could make for handy DRM for people who create custom assets for others to use in a metaverse-style virtual world. They’re definitely not a good investment, though, just a good method of proving you own a digital goods. It could be integrated into an encryption, so that if you own the NFT for X, only you an use that particular instance of X, though I haven’t seen it happen. The point is, it could be useful for a digital artisan economy in a metaverse.

          As for crypto as a whole, once again you’re right in the moment. Don’t invest in cryptocurrency, just buy some if you need to pay for something in it like a SignalLink eSIM. Why? Because of shit like the “digital dollar”. If they’re going to digitize currency anyway and make said digital currency revolve around a central bank, then keep an eye on the escape route but remember that what looks like an escape might be a trap.

          For the above reasons, I banned non-academic discussion of cryptocurrencies from /c/web3_xr because yeah, no one should be taken advantage of like that.