This is pretty cool, funds are pooled together and protected by a smart contract on the blockchain. Interest on the funds is used to fund a no-loss lottery. So instead of piddly interest your funds earn chances on the lottery. Everything is transparent and hard coded for legitimacy.

y'all suck:
lens protocol - nothing but errors trying to connect zerion (wallet they pushed while hiding metamask) or metamask (don't even know how i found it). restart 10th time, got on then they say join the waitlist and (literally) "good luck".

orb - not even the one that gives you coin for your humanity, just a web3 "super app". super meaning connect your wallet and then get stuck on a page asking - wait for it - "do you have a lens profile". there isn't even a button to answer let alone tell them where in their previous fetal home they can go and find it.

if this is the cool crowd im going to sit with zuck at lunch time.

lots of people hate on nfts and the like for creating a limited number of things (jpegs no less) when there is no need to.

but creators have rights too, at least human ones (rights not creators, that's a better post from an ai i think). copyright for instance goes back a long way. but its deeper than that especially if your name is attached to it forever. im not sure what that is but it is something and while i personally could give 2 fucks about my memetic excretions once they've popped out i do understand more retentive types.

PeerTube is a federation of autonomous servers, you can register at any of these, upload video and attach it to a topic or item here. No Google, no snoople.

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"Alongside the hedge-fund cowboys arbitraging and leveraging their way to fresh fortunes, there’s a culture war being waged, with big implications for anyone thinking that the blockchain is just a cool way to lower the cost of cross-border remittances. Hidden in the army of moneymen is a fifth column of revolutionaries. Meet the new crypto-communists..."

Read on this is a good one.

Data Dignity is a realignment of the economics of the internet that will improve the outlook for people as algorithms and robots get better, while at the same time making those technologies work better.

Bowing down before they can even stand, these billion dollar babies are not the future anymore than Coinbase was.