Controversial take, but social networks should not be "for everyone". It destroys the experience for everyone. A reasonable level of gatekeeping is a very healthy community tool.
Stanford, YC, the US, and every community of value is selective. How you select is a different debate, but gatekeeping is an objectively valuable attribute.
We used to have bad guys in crypto.
They made us say "fuck you" and driven by those fuck yous we built a giant middle finger to the traditional banking system.
Now... we don't really care that much about.
What happened to the bad guys?
Gary Gensler was never the bad guy.
We've opened the door to the bad guys.
They're in our living room right now.
They know everything about you and plan to take everything from you.
We forgot about the bad guys.
We must not forget about the bad guys.
Fuck you.
We’re all waking up to the fact that the emperors have no clothes and the “counterculture” tech elites are no better than the politicians.
Cypherpunk is going to come back. It needs to come back.
Kinda crazy we've accepted the "Verify you are human" cloudflare pages as the status quo now. They're measurably more annoying than cookie banners and are the equivalent of a 5s+ load time on your site.
Bots really have destroyed the internet.
Is anyone else incredibly tired of this bullshit "you can become rich just use my app" narrative???
This is a zero-sum game. The only people who end up taking the money out of your phone are the companies earning the trading fees. We all complain about insider trading and shady market manipulation when its anon accounts on twitter but when its startups and public co's with cute branding and a narrative to sell the critics get real fucking quiet
We need a rollup of FOSS projects that take existing closed crypto infra and rebuild it as self-hostable and open source. Too much critical infra is gated, especially for an industry that claims to be against gatekeepers
