wake (wake)

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The art of the deal: to grift.

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I think that’s how this will go. Varun’s technology will get forked; the core community will migrate (all 32 of us); and we’ll be spared Dan’s leadership and corpo entanglements. Buuuuut server architecture costs money to run, besides dev research and maintenance. For all its talk of money and freedom, crypto has found no sustainable way to fund pro-social stuff. Tokenomic systems all follow natural laws and, like any entropic system, eventually fizzle out. Nothing is perpetual except crypto’s own bullshit. We’d need actual money, motivation, and developer chops to get it done. Not some distracting crypto experiment. And I think someone will eventually attempt it. If that person is a torchbearer for strong values, such as @cassie, it miiiiiight succeed. She’s not the only one but the pool of candidates is limited. I’d follow her. I bet you would too.

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decentralization is not an evergreen goal. rather like keeping your rifle in good working order, even during peacetime. people call you paranoid. an idealist. impractical. wasteful. a relic, a cowboy. "people don't want this," they decry. and true! they don't. but that's because they can't see the necessity of it. like teaching children math or civics or ideas that don't help them fetch water. they don't know what it's for. how it protects them, us, from sophistry-at-scale and the /idea/ of an enemy, of other. centralized social systems - especially in the age of glibly persuasive AI - offer only truthiness and convincing perfidy. no credible standard; no perspective except what is permitted. only slopaganda. we have the technology to make it better. but not the will.

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