Monero is an also-ran cryptocurrency, in the same proof-of-work family as Bitcoin and Etherium.
Monero.town is a Lemmy instance whose main communities are: Monero, privacy, Monero Memes, Meta, and Monero Mining.
Enough has been written on the negative ecological effects of proof-of-work based cryptocurrency that I think it's not controversial to say it is incompatible with the Solarpunk vision.
Pictured inciting incident is a person advertising the crypto-capitalist Lemmy competitor "Nostr" in the anarchism community.
I don't personally mind a debate about Nostr, but like most of the content from Monero.town, it doesn't belong here. More sales pitches from a crypto-currency hype instance are going to be tedious, and crowd out the kind of progressive politics and human interactions we're looking to nurture here. Reddit's /r/anarchism had to constantly repel assholes trying to pass off their edgy capitalism as anarchist, Lemmy gives us the unique opportunity to send a strong message and nip this in the bud.
Fediverse sites that have already blocked Monero.town --
reject (10): solarpunk.moe, polyglot.city, freethought.online, icosahedron.website, sunbeam.city, vtuber.house, fruef.social, cutie.city, fuckcars.social, karas.social
followers_only (3): toot.cat, orbsafe.masto.host, partyparrot.social
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[Image description: Screenshot of an exchange between user Jack@Monero.Town and Five containing the following text
Yea, that’s just not how Nostr works. Take a look here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips These are implementation possibilities that the protocol enables. Every client must implement NIP-01. All of the other NIPs are optional so every client that you use (an app for example) has decided to implement different NIPs. You decide which client you use and how Nostr should feel like. Almost no client prioritizes content that received bitcoin.
Your “login mechanism” (private cryptographic key) has nothing to do with cryptocurrency. If you want to send btc to people you have to set that up yourself, manually linking a wallet to your key.
Five
I’m confused why you’re downplaying Nostr’s primary selling point - its close integration with Bitcoin. It’s clearly a cryptocurrency capitalist con job.
Almost no client prioritizes content that received bitcoin.
That’s not what I was saying, but I’m fascinated that you’re implying it’s much worse than I anticipated. Which clients have their priority linked to received bitcoin? ]
So I've read all of your reply, but at this point I feel the need to wrap this up. I need to get back to working on other things besides writing internet essays. XD
You've given me some things to think about. Maybe I'll bump up the priority on my credit network project. Thank you for the conversation. :)
That was a really fascinating read from you two, thank you both for engaging so thoughtfully with each other on a topic I'm not very familiar with. There's so many little threads of information sprinkled in there to research and learn more about. Really wonderful stuff.
Also @Five (let me know if that @ or ping or whatever works, I've tried pinging people like that a few other times but they never responded, so I never know if it actually sends the message to your inbox).
Thanks PF - I've received pings from people using @Five in the past, but obviously I don't know how many I haven't received. I didn't see this one until I manually reviewed the comment thread. I wonder if the ping and the reply cancelled each other out.
Thanks for letting me know! I think I'm messing something up, since you're the first response I've gotten from pinging.
Thank you as well :)