I've been in mostly violent agreement with @smdiehl and others who call out cryptocurrency and its descendants for what they are—an end run around financial regulation at best, a massive fraud at worst. We all agree it makes no sense as a technology. But one thing worries me:https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1445795667826208770 …
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The fact that the project at the heart of this pretty vibrant online culture is rotten makes it hard to accept that the social phenomenon around it is real and has depth and value. It's like watching animals come to a watering hole we know is filled with gasoline.
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But this is also an indictment of the web. Why did we let it basically turn into TV? Where's the outlet for talented young people who want to turn the world upside down, but don't care to sign on to the giant scam that is cryptocurrency? We don't have a good answer for them.
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And part of it is definitely that everyone today carries an incredible computer in their pocket and... you can't do anything with it. My first computer program at age 8 made an IBM desktop write profanity in an infinite loop. I wouldn't begin to know how to do that on an iPhone.
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But the ersatz graffiti brony art!!!11
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There are plenty of creative places still: Glitch, Adafruit, Scratch, Youtube, podcasts, game jams, the entire JavaScript ecosystem in every browser on earth. Smaller relative to the whole tech economy, but bigger in an absolute sense than it’s ever been before.
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I would challenge this to say, it's communities outside of tech that are using the web for weird / fun projects. In 2020 during the shutdown, book fairs did pop up websites and experiences. Tokyo Art Book Fair did a virtual browsing experience a la old school comp games
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We must not be using Twitter the same way... Also there are plenty of good creator communities around, including large "corporate" platforms (SoundCloud, YouTube, etc) Meanwhile 90% of NFT JPGs look like the output a "customize your avatar" wizard from 2003. Don't even look rare
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I think we're talking about two different things—creativity within the guardrails of a platform, vs. basic blue-sky tinkering.
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