and with DeFi I have taken out loans and bought "real world" things, all with trustless/permissionless contracts. I value that and so do many others. If you dont thats ok, its opt-in.
We are having fun, making things, and building community. At some point the critics have to show us what alternatives and new things they've been building, what their attempts look like, what they are offering that is so much better...
Take code collaboration (https://radicle.xyz/) Code Collaboration and team programming is a real use case that people can get value of.
I've been using git for 10 years to collaborate with other developers. Google docs has supported live document collaboration for years. Microsoft has a great tool as well. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
If you prefer radicle.xyz over git or Google or MSFT, that is fine. But lets be clear that the technology to perform code collaboration is not dependent on Web3. Web3 is being inserted into an existing real world application.
sure, if that works for you then you dont need it.
its useful for the co-ops i work with. allows easy group ownership of repos and also basically gives us a group bank account and voting system all at once. like instant community group infra. It probably isnt needed for corporations or solo devs. but for smaller evolving communities it is an improvement on a github org or a google doc.
and id like to point out that we've gone from you saying "pyramid scheme" and talking about money, too "if you prefer..thats fine" in like two comments. maybe we can start toning down the moral panic on these things, and recognising there is useful stuff here, maybe not to you, but to some of us. thats why we are building it in the first place.
I only buy products from Multi Level Marketing companies. The sales people at MLMs are more friendly in comparison to just using a website like Amazon.com. Maybe that isn't useful to you, but to me it is. Therefor, MLMs are legit businesses and no one should ever criticize them.
https://creators.mirror.xyz/
https://holly.mirror.xyz/
https://snapshot.org/
https://radicle.xyz/
https://proofofhumanity.id/
https://www.klimadao.finance/
https://www.partybid.app/
and with DeFi I have taken out loans and bought "real world" things, all with trustless/permissionless contracts. I value that and so do many others. If you dont thats ok, its opt-in.
We are having fun, making things, and building community. At some point the critics have to show us what alternatives and new things they've been building, what their attempts look like, what they are offering that is so much better...