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irelephant [he/him]🍭 @lemm.ee

5d ago

Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far.

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if you want authenticity, just get good fucking moderation running, but noooo, this involves paying people (giving money away?? this is not how billionaires are made) and can't be grifted on
also https://xkcd.com/810/
- New idea for instance application questions.
- This is the best xkcd I've seen in ages!

At this point cryptocurrency has a bad enough reputation that they have to try and ease readers into it.
(insert clown getting dressed meme image here)
It's new digg!
AI is bad (but also sexy and all powerful)
so captchas are hard :(
let's make a real fancy captcha!
With... Zero-Knowledge Proofs :D :D :D :D :D (all non cryptocurrency people flee at this point)
Also like NFTs for products you buy so when you shill them people know you're at least a real person doing so (maybe, kinda, sorta)
So anyway I was thinking if only there was something else as ~~dystopian~~ cool as Sam Altman 様's orb thing and we smeared it across the entire internet

- With pump[.]fun anyone can. This has made crypto scamming easier, and has no other discernable benefits.
  
  Hey guys, you should invest in some KolaKoin!
  Edit: 3 people are upset this was just a joke and they can't buy KolaKoin 😔
- Classic orange cat move
- There's always money in the banana -coin!

Ah yes, back to key signing parties. But dumber.
- Do I have to put my pgp key on "The Blockchain" to get people to use it?
  
  Dont think you can solve social problems with technical solutions tbh

Yeah, not with these tech bros in charge. They have no interest in the truth or they would pay fact checkers and mods.

Didn't steemit already fail horribly trying to do this?

Honestly, this does seem like a valid use of the technology behind crypto. Definitely a more beneficial use than just value speculation like we have now.
- Worldcoin is a scam. This is a scam
- how does one become an irate anteater? is it mostly by lacking ants to eat and instead consuming only inaccurate thinkpieces about how the will-never-pay-you-the-bagholder casino "works"?
- That is exactly what I was thinking when I read it, too.
  
  you and your friend really should have spent any time at all looking into who runs worldcoin and how fucking monstrously dystopian it is before rushing into buttcoin of all places to defend the “valid use of the technology behind crypto” (????) you both imagined existed in the OP’s screenshot

It could at least solve the Nicole problem. Proof-of-work was invented for exactly this : reducing spam in inboxes
- @Mubelotix @techtakes You know what else would solve the Nicole problem? Old-skool USENET style client-side killfiles circa 1990, applied to DMs—your inbox-equivalent.
- tell me you've never dealt with human-facing network systems without telling me you've never dealt with human facing network systems
  
  Hundreds if not thousands of users access the services I host in my home every fucking day. I'm sorry but PoW is a very basic subject in CS and you are the one showing your ignorance. Also, if you had participated in online security challenges like rootme, you would have seen it implemented and working
- Question is of spam or proof of work burns the planet faster and I feel like it would be the latter.
  
  It does not work like that. The principle is that legitimate users all pay negligible cost, but a spammy user would have to pay so much it is just not possible. The spammy user would not even try, it discourages them

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