xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@gabriel @xianc78 They launched this "passport" thing because quadratic voting can be easily gamed by creating multiple accounts (the more votes you get, the more money your project receives on Gitcoin platform). This is not a KYC procedure, and I think you can verify the uniqueness of your account anonymously.

So in this particular case they are doing it out of necessity, not because they want to build a dystopian digital ID system.

Though in general I agree that a skepticism towards such systems is justified. Most of them are designed for control (e.g. Worldcoin).

And I think you're right about de-platforming, Gitcoin would drop Tor Project the moment it becomes politically inconvenient, just like any other major crowdfunding platform.

@xianc78@gameliberty.club
I agree with your overall points: It's important not to throw out the baby with the bathwater on funding important projects merely because blockchain based projects or platforms are involved. @silverpill@mitra.social does a good job pointing this out as well.

That said, I think there are good reasons to avoid almost a vast majority of blockchain projects. Even though the people who take an extreme anti-cryptocurrency stance are misguided, there's a lot more merit to the approach than it would seem.

You've likely heard "the medium is the message" and I think it does apply to blockchain projects. There's something ironic about funding an online passport in parallel to funding the Tor project. Over time, I've grown much more suspicious of efforts to validate online activity and interactions. I think many (not specifically gitcoin) blockchain projects are merely age-old top-down control structures with a glossy coat of paint.

Someone could go to Reddit and mistake it for an organically run community because of things like upvotes and downvotes. They would be mistaken due to the level of control the reddit admins have over the platform. I don't really believe that any proof-of-stake system will inherently improve things (corporations themselvesare arguably proof-of-stake).

Doubling down, if projects like @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social are going to start getting de-platformed en masse, very few blockchain based platforms are not so embedded in establishment structures that they'd be forced to comply as well. To me, If they're not actually providing censorship resistance, it's a farce even if the project isn't necessarily an outright scam.

RE: https://mitra.social/objects/018a0971-6633-8deb-c7c1-4e1f941f589b

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Hey guys, I was featured on the latest Thank God for Nostr podcast where we discussed veganism, my beginnings at Truth Social, ActivityPub, and the move to Nostr.

Give it a listen here: https://fountain.fm/episode/7IvgMxBTfPXPw6CI60Oc

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In 2000, the WonderSwan received a web browser supporting a subset of HTML 3.2, tables, GIF files, reading Japanese text, bookmarks, and cookies - all on a handheld competing with the Game Boy Color.

From 2004, it no longer worked due to a missing gateway server. UNTIL TODAY.

I wrote a tutorial, so you can make it work again too, if you want!

It's up on my blog: https://blog.asie.pl/2023/08/browsing-the-web-wonderswan-2023/

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