>PS: gotta love the massive wave of silent downvotes. Why?
Thinly veiled sales pitch.
Thinly veiled sales pitch.
Oh, it's also about startups. And about funding them. And building stuff people want.
I don't know man. Every time I put in a lot of work (a decade, say) and build something major and substantial to improve the world, and document it, linking to third party reputable sources for everything I'm claiming and saying, and give it away for free... if I share the link on HN, I often get downvoted. It's almost as if talking out of your ass and NOT doing anything to solve the problem, is far more appreciated.
Like how people regularly complain about everything related to extreme centralization of control, surveillance capitalism, etc, and I built open source and free software give you an alternative, attracted millions of people in over 100 countries, and give it away for free to you here if you only look::
Web2: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
Web2 Documentation: https://community.qbix.com
Web3: https://github.com/Intercoin
Web3 Documentation: https://intercoin.org/applications
But it gets downvoted because "hey I saw the word web3!" or "hey you're selling me... um... something". This is the "TLDR" generation.
Don't like it? Don't use it. Or use the part you like. But how about the 99% of the useful, substantive information which doesn't involve selling anything at all?
Complaining about downvotes gets downvoted.
Pity parties get downvoted.
It’s not a mystery.
To me the cause seems simple: actively enforced groupthink
But do carry on!
Where’s your hemlock?
Rough start
Oh and groupthink against Web>2.
(A bit remiscent of bitcoin maximalists who claim nothing will ever improve upon Bitcoin and nothing is needed since an old 2009 technology solves it all).
That’s what’s I’m hearing from you. And my answer is no.
I prefer to see how far irrationality can go, on even the best forums. Because a lot of times this is exactly what people have to go through who have “built a better mousetrap” but the world doesn’t “beat a path to their door”, not even their peers care, depending entirely on how it is presented
> People who have done something successfully often had others disagree with them, ergo if others disagree with me it’s probably a sign that I’m on the right path. And also that they’re “irrational”.
Airtight my man
Ask yourself, for instance, what chance does a real Web3 solution have on HN? Even Jack Dorsey's bluesky, for instance, instantly lost HNers when Jack started branding it as "Web5". IPFS no longer generates much interest because of FileCoin. Just one example, of the "halo effect".
Perhaps this is because they’re near universally bad ideas. Web3 is a strong leading indicator of poorly thought out garbage.
Maybe you can find a way to make it work for something useful. But if your pitch starts out with “Web3!” Or worse “Web5!” It sure sounds like you’ve just tried to jam tech into something rather than solving an actual problem that happened to leverage the tech.
I hope you enjoy their upcoming session called Space, featuring a picture of a flying saucer
https://gbaglobal.org/events/space/#post_content
> Embark on a journey beyond the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere and delve into the mysteries of space and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
You really think the Government Blockchain Association is primarily concerned with space and UFOs? If not, why highlight it? One word: strawman! A dishonest way to argue. I know HN members are biased against blockchains but I am always surprised more and more by the methods employed in argument. For a long time I thought HN members would avoid such tactics merely because they disagreed with something.
A straw man is an attacking a different argument, not focusing on one particularly noteworthy piece of evidence. Asserting that I’m saying space is their primary concern is, ironically, a straw man argument. Because I’m not saying that. I’m saying that it’s a red flag.
An organization focused on financial technology has no reason to be hosting a talk on UFOs. I don’t think their thing is UFOs. But I do think maybe their thing is trying to attract complete fucking morons that think they know better than the rest of society in the vein that “UFOs are aliens” is markedly compatible with “blockchain is the solution society needs”.
I actually feel very comfortable writing off any organization as idiots, crazies, or predatory snake oil salesmen for hosting a single event on the presence of aliens among us. I don’t require that to be their whole thing. That’s just a hilariously bright red flag.