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The hivemind of Lemmy has been the opposite so far in my experience. I'm probably what most here would call a "crypto bro," though I wouldn't call myself that.
It's weird to me that the occupy wallstreet folks are all like "banks do it better." It's also weird to me that it's gotten so polarizing. You don't have to be a libertarian to see its benefits, and you don't have to be a communist to want scammers locked up.
I've generally been seeing the opposite sentiment on Lemmy and I'm here for it. Crypto bros can stay on the other site.
There's a lot of federated (and now defederate) servers that are run by political and/or economic pariahs likely ousted by content flags/bans concerning spam. Now that regular folks are moving in though, the dynamics are quickly changing to a more common ideology.
Lol. If they're comparing Crypto and Lemmy and getting mad, that's probably just one way of how they got sold on crypto by whatever community they're in. Just ask anyone who uses crypto a simple question: If I pay for a good or service, and I am not given that good/service, what should I do? Having a decentralized money exchange is great (and much needed), as a supplement to a centralized one. Something like Lemmy on the other hand has nothing to do with trading value, it's moreso contribution for the sake of adding value into a shared system. I'm not going to try and find retribution for someone not answering a question I post, because I didn't pay anyone to answer it.
I appreciate the philosophy, resilience, resistance to censorship, and individual control that both types of decentralization provide.
Crypto has many scams only because it is intended to be traded or used as currency. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a few others have held their value over time because of the network effect: more people use it to transact, so it maintains it's worth as a means of transaction. All those shit coins and alt coins were absolute scams because there was no way to use them (you can use Bitcoin to actually buy products and services).
Decentralized platforms that promote beans are also cool, but their currency is lulz. There's not much value for that outside the platform.
I am. Did it full time for a living for about two years when I was sick. Had $300 dollars left to my name, and turned it into over $200k and paid off stuff for me and my girlfriend and then got a little house.
Not sure what comparison of crypto and Lemmy is, but guess thats my answer. I understand peoples view on support and not supporting crypto.
