I mean, fuck NFTs, but this is the kind of thing they were supposed to solve. The real issue is maybe it’s not a problem we should be trying to solve.
These avatars forever live on reddit’s servers. Much like an old video game which hosted servers for online games, ten years down the road, maintaining these servers for fewer and fewer people playing an old game that isn’t providing any new income becomes a real difficult cost to justify.
It’s why people, when it comes to gaming, prefer the option where the code to run servers is released in an open source fashion, so individuals can keep running servers for the game if they wish.
I’m not really sure how to keep running servers for avatars… Avatars that really you could “save” by fucking taking a screenshot and saving it to your hard drive. The whole thing seems a little superfluous to complain about when digital artifacts are so easily copied.
People who pay for digital content that can be sunsetted someday are fucking rubes and that’s all there is to it, frankly. I mean, seriously, an avatar is just a picture. Screenshot that shit and you can use it anywhere you want. I’m confused as to why people would pay for it to begin with.
I’m further confused as to why people argue we need stuff like NFT’s to break how computers already work fundamentally, to try to make it so people “own” digital artifacts instead of using the fact that everything can be copied so easily as a reason to leave that kind of selfish bullshit behind us in favor of a real sharing economy. We don’t need digital ownership, we need a digital commons.
Gentle reminder that property rights are part and parcel to why a huge part of the world is experiencing a housing crisis. Maybe acting like property ownership is the be-all, end-all of the world is the problem, not the solution.
I make NFTs and collect them (I know but please hear me out) and to me and many in my community it has nothing to do with property or ownership… Collecting someone’s art is just a way to financially support them, encourage them, and also to have a collection of all the art you were able to support.
I do it on the Tezos blockchain, which was created to use as little energy as possible, and all the art is backed up with redundancy on IPFS. There has already been one site going down (hicetnunc) and within 12 hours mirrors were up with all the same content etc.
That’s how it should be in my opinion… Free for all to view and play with, open to funding by patrons who want to support artists, and resistant to any kind of corporate ownership or shutdown.
My avatar for example was created by a friend (@guandanarian@twitter.com) who turned my avatar (self created) into an animation. I have it backed up locally ofc but knowing it exists on IPFS and the history of who made it and why is preserved on the blockchain gives me peace of mind, but I recognize that’s a personal feeling and I don’t expect everyone to view it the same way.
I mean, fuck NFTs, but this is the kind of thing they were supposed to solve. The real issue is maybe it’s not a problem we should be trying to solve.
These avatars forever live on reddit’s servers. Much like an old video game which hosted servers for online games, ten years down the road, maintaining these servers for fewer and fewer people playing an old game that isn’t providing any new income becomes a real difficult cost to justify.
It’s why people, when it comes to gaming, prefer the option where the code to run servers is released in an open source fashion, so individuals can keep running servers for the game if they wish.
I’m not really sure how to keep running servers for avatars… Avatars that really you could “save” by fucking taking a screenshot and saving it to your hard drive. The whole thing seems a little superfluous to complain about when digital artifacts are so easily copied.
People who pay for digital content that can be sunsetted someday are fucking rubes and that’s all there is to it, frankly. I mean, seriously, an avatar is just a picture. Screenshot that shit and you can use it anywhere you want. I’m confused as to why people would pay for it to begin with.
I’m further confused as to why people argue we need stuff like NFT’s to break how computers already work fundamentally, to try to make it so people “own” digital artifacts instead of using the fact that everything can be copied so easily as a reason to leave that kind of selfish bullshit behind us in favor of a real sharing economy. We don’t need digital ownership, we need a digital commons.
Gentle reminder that property rights are part and parcel to why a huge part of the world is experiencing a housing crisis. Maybe acting like property ownership is the be-all, end-all of the world is the problem, not the solution.
Copy that floppy!
I make NFTs and collect them (I know but please hear me out) and to me and many in my community it has nothing to do with property or ownership… Collecting someone’s art is just a way to financially support them, encourage them, and also to have a collection of all the art you were able to support.
I do it on the Tezos blockchain, which was created to use as little energy as possible, and all the art is backed up with redundancy on IPFS. There has already been one site going down (hicetnunc) and within 12 hours mirrors were up with all the same content etc.
That’s how it should be in my opinion… Free for all to view and play with, open to funding by patrons who want to support artists, and resistant to any kind of corporate ownership or shutdown.
My avatar for example was created by a friend (@guandanarian@twitter.com) who turned my avatar (self created) into an animation. I have it backed up locally ofc but knowing it exists on IPFS and the history of who made it and why is preserved on the blockchain gives me peace of mind, but I recognize that’s a personal feeling and I don’t expect everyone to view it the same way.