mccDec 21, 2022

Re: https://mastodon.social/@lrhodes@merveilles.town/109552108127349128

Another important warning from the pawoo acquisition: The purchaser, Mask Network, is a cryptotoken company that pushes the "web3" myth and openly runs NFT scams*. A lot of people comment that when Twitter started failing it was ActivityPub that wound up being the decentralized way forward, not blockchain tech, but blockchain scammers have a financial interest in making it look otherwise. (1/2)

* Explaining this comment to ward off lawsuits: all NFT sales are scams.

Show threadmaxDec 21, 2022
@mcc not all nft sales are scams. Digital artists have a right to be paid for their work.
Show threadPJ "Vote Green" Coffey

@maxXx @mcc NFTs aren't artwork, they're links to artwork.

Yes. That is very stupid. Did you know that and are defending NFT sales or did you not know that and are defending artists' right to get paid?

Dec 21, 2022 at 10:38pmWeb
Show threadmaxDec 21, 2022
@Homebrewandhacking @mcc artists have a right to get paid however they want. Generalizing and writing off an entire industry that you don’t fully understand as a scam is just Intellectually lazy. 💜💜
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenDec 22, 2022
@maxXx @Homebrewandhacking @mcc um, actual artists selling their own art as NFTs is a minuscule fraction of NFT sales, artists have a ton of other avenues they use for sales. So that is a spurious defense when 99% are get rich quick schemes. The generalization fits.
Show threadmaxDec 21, 2022
@Homebrewandhacking @mcc they also aren’t links to the artwork. They are links to a proof of a transaction that you supported an artist.
Show threadPJ "Vote Green" CoffeyDec 21, 2022

@maxXx @mcc Ah, you do know the difference. I love how posting the wrong thing will draw people out.

Anyway, NFT is No Time for cryptobros.

And block.