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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I love how every defense for crypto platforms like this (or eth based stuff or solana etc etc) is always somehow about censorship and personal freedom stuff but then pretty much everything built on all of this is to pump the crypto more.

The social networks are only used to talk about crypto. The "shared processing power of web3" is used almost purely for defi trading apps, and they get the most attention when the price rises (because someone like trump goes "hehe $TRUMP") or falls (because the cracks show through with something like FTX).

It seems the only things crypto does is increase the value of crypto, scam people, and throw ridiculously expensive parties attended by those trying to increase the value of crypto. The protections against censorship and personal freedoms seem to be purely to launder money, avoid taxes, and pay for illicit goods and services.

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I love how every defense for crypto platforms like this (or eth based stuff or solana etc etc) is always somehow about censorship and personal freedom stuff but then pretty much everything built on all of this is to pump the crypto more.

The beauty of an open and permissionless platform is that it can be used however anybody wants, whether that's sending aid to Gaza, accessing financial tools you're otherwise locked out of, or pumping Trump's shitcoin.

It seems the only things crypto does is increase the value of crypto, scam people, and throw ridiculously expensive parties attended by those trying to increase the value of crypto.

Some useful applications of crypto include:

Simple large sum transfers with ZERO friction and instant settlement. (eg: transferring $193,000,000 with a fee of $0.17 (0.00000008839779%))

Treasury bonds (maker, EIB)

Social Media (Farcaster, lens)

No-loss lottery (pool together)

mortgages (tinlake)

insurance (Nexus Mutal)

pay-day loans (Alchemix)

lending/borrowing (AAVE, Compound)

CDPs (Maker)

Exchanges (Uniswap)

Yield Aggregator (yearn)

derivitives (dydx)

Certificates (OpenCerts)

Streaming payments (llamapay)

[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

launder money, avoid taxes, and pay for illicit goods and services.

you say that like it's a bad thing ;-)

[–] librekitty@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

nostr isn't web3, it just has extensions for crypto tips (some nostr clients don't even support it)

also yeah, most of the "influencer" posts on there are trash, but it's nice beyond that, imo

[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tje trending posts are all trash. I'm sure there is a significant minority who's not super annoying, but it's not an inviting place.

[–] librekitty@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago

yeah, technically there's no algorithm on there, so you have to make it your own

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Web3 is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, tokenomics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Web 3.0" was supposed to be things like the fediverse, or tech like IPFS/Dat. Crypto/NFT tied their cart to that horse to appear legitimate.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the fediverse is the true web3. Might as well call it web4.