AnilWhen it came time to reckon with social media’s failings, nobody ran to the “web3” platforms. Nobody asked “can I get paid per message”? Nobody asked about the blockchain. The community of people who’ve been quietly doing this work for years (decades!) ended up being the ones who welcomed everyone over, as always.
Peter Rojas@anildash What I find especially encouraging is that you don't have to be suspicious of the motives of anyone promoting Mastodon (or the fediverse more generally), there isn't some scammy token to pump and dump. It's refreshing.
Simon Willison
like jam or bootlacesabsolutely there are NFT web3 coinbros on the fediverse
just like there's all sorts of other awful stuff
from this account I don't, and maybe on your instances you don't, tend to see them
but if you go looking for them you don't even need to sign up on one of their instances ... loose federation helps keep them at a distance, but it also can be a bit leaky
you can find them through the open-registration, lightly moderated, big instances, usually
I mean, just look at some of the entities that have sponsored Eugen's efforts
@simon @anildash @idlestate I have no doubt that there are crypto servers out there. But the fediverse itself doesn't run on a blockchain and so there are none of the awful incentives that accompany "web3" projects. And it's telling that those people aren't opting to use a blockchain-based product rather than Mastodon.