A word I didn't like about communities presented to hive-engine back in the day was "tribes" because similar to many other things around web3 they were starting to be quite annoying in many aspects. Now of course they didn't have any bad intentions and insinuations in mind when they picked that word, it just wasn't what I would have picked at the time. The real issue of course is all this maximalism we've been seeing over web2 socials regarding certain coins and projects. Drama fuels the web is what they say so in a way I guess it may have done well to get the word of crypto and blockchain out there but think about this, there's way less drama about how web3 is better than web2 in all its aspects over socials than there is compared to "my coin is better than yours".
I read a few tweets the other day of someone mentioning that he had gone ahead and blacklisted certain words of another similar blockchain and project as to not see it in their timeline at all. It's kind of a web2 solution to it if you think about it. "I'm not seeing it so it's not going to bother me.", but why is it bothering you in the first place? Like what wrong can come out of having two projects fighting to make web3 gaming more popular compared to the ways we've been used to in the past? Obviously they aren't going to be completely identical but are the few differences enough for these drastic measures? Isn't the end goal to improve the day to day of gamers and the value they get from web3 compared to web2 now where it's only the top x% that get anything out of it? I thought that was what blockchain, ownership and decentralization was out to conquer.
We of course see this every day when it comes to the big coins as well, I don't think I need to mention the bitcoin maxis and their ways. It's quite ridiculous that they'd call everything else a scam except for the one true ring coin, especially when only a few years ago the same-ish people would call all of crypto a scam, bitcoin included.
What a strange world we live in. Lately I've been researching this one mobile game and there's been ads popping up here and there with most of the games being promoted not even being the game in the ad. Like, I wish I was joking but it literally is a completely different game than what the ad shows being played. What is the point of it you may ask, well I'm not sure but the fact that they make it onto ads and trick people to install them is quite scary that it's there to begin with. Maybe advertisers are backing off and google is becoming that desperate to let anything show up as long as they get paid, kind of reminds me of twitter ads lately too where every day there's a new blue checkmarked account promoting a literal scam that'll steal your wallet with tweets not allowing anyone to comment and the like and retweet ratio always being the same. Going back to the strange world, is this the norm now? You have to browse through so much to get to some actual realness in social media? And I don't mean people being fake and only showing you the good parts of their lives, but actual malicious fakeness that's only out there to hurt you financially. It's kind of crazy if you ask me but it's all over socials nowadays and explains why there's so many crypto currencies in top spots with nothing to really show for just awaiting innocent buyers with hopes of riches to buy in and extract value from them.
I'm not even going to get started with web2 gamers and developers hating on the idea of web3 and making as much noise as they can to let their followers and long-time players know that they will never consider web3 and the advantages it gives players while the players join in on the train to hate on it. It's like a stockholm syndrome effect where they've gotten so used to things just being shitty and without research just agree and repeat what's being told to them.
Now and then I get this idea in my mind to open up world of warcraft again. A game that's taken a considerable amount of time in my life, which I've mostly enjoyed and gotten something out of so can't argue it's been pointless, but to think I have to pay $13 per month to even be able to log in and look at my web2 assets is so ridiculous that I quickly push that addiction trigger off and move on to something else. The fact that I'd have nothing to show for for all that time I've spent gaming is something I've been meaning to fix and been hoping web3 is the solution. I think splinterlands has done a good job there and a few other web3 games but I'm really looking forward to seeing more to the point where web2 gamers are going to realize they've made a huge mistake to go against it for as long as they have the same way everyone went against bitcoin and eth back in the day.
Anyway, that was this day's rant post, hope you liked reading it. Imma try post a bit more from here on out, my new years resolution of posting daily did not get far, lol, but maybe I can still make up for it with some updates on holozing and other random thoughts and activities in my daily life.
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