Comment on A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.

JungleGeorge@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did they though? It might be my filter bubble, but whenever I saw web3 being pushed I saw a small refraction of responses of people who also thought it was a great idea (typical salesbros - so a good idea for others to do, just not for themselves). But the vast majority of people reject it for being a scam.

  So how many people fell for it, really?

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  • GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More than 0, which is all the comment said.

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    • sab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If we’re just going for semantics, don’t you mean more than 1 for them to qualify as “people”?

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      • GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Damn it lol

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did the average person/average internet user fall for it? No.

    Did the people who fell for it get sucked into what was basically a cult that sucked the money out of a decent amount of people? Yeah.

    The numbers for some of these scam projects were honestly insane.

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    • sab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah, probably my filter bubble then.

      I’d like to read more about this, do you know of any specific cases?

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      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you have time, I would suggest CoffeeZilla on YouTube. He basically just get into crypto scam, which isn’t hard to find these days. One specific case I would look at is the influencers taking on pretty much any scam projects to get money. The series is with Oompaville. A great watch.

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    • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s even possible to calculate how much real money was lost to this stuff.

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• comic_zalgo_sans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People are always looking for get rich quick schemes, especially when interest rates were minimal. NFTs was another application of the tech behind cryptocurrency, which was relatively straightforward “buy GPUs and electricity, get money” for a while. It helped that it was useful for speculation, crime, taking advantage of people who wanted easy money, mixed in with the reputation art has for moving money around.

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• CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even the name “web3” is stupid. Isn’t it supposed to be the next step after “web 2.0?” Shouldn’t it then be “web 3.0?” They couldn’t even include a space been web and 3!

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