What does the chain part provide that's not available right now through any page with an interledger link in meta and maybe an .eth link if you want to be fancy with anticensorship?
Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
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#22What does the chain part provide that's not available right now through any page with an interledger link in meta and maybe an .eth link if you want to be fancy with anticensorship?
Lets him skim 10%.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
From my understanding, they're relying on GitHub for the hosting of the blog posts themselves.
So the opposite of decentralized then. Why do crypto people love inventing new middlemen to take a cut? Oh right, they’re the middleman. That’s why.
> Why do people love inventing new middlemen to take a cut?
FTFY.
Remember many on this site are partially responsible for the ad-ridden web and a proliferation of all sorts of spyware.
OTOH, we wouldn't skewer someone for charging for yet another toy SaaS and posting a Show HN, so... let's be a little more balanced.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
So the opposite of decentralized then. Why do crypto people love inventing new middlemen to take a cut? Oh right, they’re the middleman. That’s why.
> Why do people love inventing new middlemen to take a cut? FTFY. Remember many on this site are partially responsible for the ad-ridden web and a proliferation of all sorts of spyware. OTOH, we wouldn't skewer someone for charging for yet another toy SaaS and posting a Show HN, so... let's be a little more balanced.
I don't think it's unbalanced to call BS on a service claiming to be decentralized that in fact relies on a single centralized service they do not control, twice over. (Once for auth, second for content).
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#25What does the chain part provide that's not available right now through any page with an interledger link in meta and maybe an .eth link if you want to be fancy with anticensorship?
It provides a discovery service
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#26What does the chain part provide that's not available right now through any page with an interledger link in meta and maybe an .eth link if you want to be fancy with anticensorship?
Lets him skim 10%.
Lol! It’s not my intention for this to be a get rich quick scheme but there are running costs (user registration and TheGraph network payments). If the platform is to be self sustaining it needs to cover its costs.
Is there a reasonable long term platform fee that you would find acceptable? Say 1% or 0.1%?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
From my understanding, they're relying on GitHub for the hosting of the blog posts themselves.
But why specifically GitHub, instead of just git? Every git hosting provider could work with this model
That’s true but I am trying to discourage people publishing other people’s work. Hence users need to link their account through oauth. Other hosts can be added.
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#28Do you have a link to the contracts?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lets him skim 10%.
Lol! It’s not my intention for this to be a get rich quick scheme but there are running costs (user registration and TheGraph network payments). If the platform is to be self sustaining it needs to cover its costs. Is there a reasonable long term platform fee that you would find acceptable? Say 1% or 0.1%?
So it sounds like you can DoS the service through user registration and graph usage?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why do people love inventing new middlemen to take a cut? FTFY. Remember many on this site are partially responsible for the ad-ridden web and a proliferation of all sorts of spyware. OTOH, we wouldn't skewer someone for charging for yet another toy SaaS and posting a Show HN, so... let's be a little more balanced.
I don't think it's unbalanced to call BS on a service claiming to be decentralized that in fact relies on a single centralized service they do not control, twice over. (Once for auth, second for content).
Yeah, I guess it’s more accurate to call it an [almost] fully decentralised discovery service rn. Decentralised hosting should come later. The almost is for the oauth server, which can be improved by adding other independent trusted servers in a permissioned network.