thinking about decentraland, thanks to Dan Olson 

thinking about how federation and “decentralization” (as shown in many a failed crypto project) are essentially two sides of dealing with lack of trust in online interactions

either you try to crush out the social messiness by setting up hard mechanically-enforced rules that intend to treat everyone equally, or you embrace the social messiness and negotiate with people as people

of course, the reason that crypto projects always go down in flames is that you can’t just remove the social messiness. you can blind yourself to it and convince yourself that you fixed it, but that doesn’t fix the actual problems between people

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re: thinking about decentraland, thanks to Dan Olson 

@gardevoir what exactly is "decentraland"? i keep reading it as defunctland
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re: thinking about decentraland, thanks to Dan Olson 

@Felthry cryptocurrency people trying to reinvent second life, essentially

for more information, youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8

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