Kim Crawley (she/her) π·πI just blocked an apparent "web3" guru on my instance. It felt good. π
BTW, "web3" is bullshit.
I didn't parachute off of Elon Musk's Twitter to stumble upon cryptobros!
Toot Zi 
@crowgirl it probably inevitable that all kind of creeps follow the βherdβ. Iβve been thinking that basically one just needs to follow the βNewbie/welcome botβ thatβs running at least on my instance or the introduction hashtag to find the prey. βHeyy welcome to Mastodon I have something for youβ¦β.
Good point. I hope the culture of Mastodon and Hachyderm remains pro-FOSS and "knowledge should be free" hacker culture.
We can work for corporations and talk about proprietary software positively, that's fine. But cryptobro bullshit is absolutely oppositional to hacker ideals and must be blocked on sight.
SocietyMatt
Steveπ³οΈβπ@crowgirl Web3 was always a bullshit scheme to monetize data based on artificial scarcity. Glad to see you and others calling this out.
I just blocked another user who replied to this toot, thinking there's some sort of "cryptocurrency or Apple Pay" binary and supposedly being anti-cryptobro is being pro-Apple Pay? π€π
Yeah, those of us who don't want the planet to be destroyed by endless cryptomining datacentres are totally in a Coke or Pepsi duel between payment systems. /sarcasm
ceoln@crowgirl That was indeed a very odd reaction!
Kensan@crowgirl Certain topics just makes these people present themselves for easier addition to block lists Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Brendan LeFebvre@crowgirl hahah me too, saw him float down my local timeline & was like NOPE
Keep cryptobros off of Hachyderm.io!
Adam Gonnerman@awgonnerman @crowgirl that's a bingo!
I don't remember. I read something in my local feed saying something positive about "web3." Then I looked at their bio and it was all about "web3". π΅
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