That was one feature that was actually useful. Immediately you knew if you should just block someone and move on.
X removes support for NFT profile pictures
Submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/x-removes-support-for-nft-profile-pictures/
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merc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
AaronMaria@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
stackPeek@lemmy.world 4 months ago
in a way, blue checkmark is a useful feature too.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Continuing removal of all features not related to showing ads alongside Nazis.
handhookcardoor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Even a broken clock, eh?
Album@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
The value of your NFT just went from .02 to .0002
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I would imagine the sheer embarrassment of having an really ugly monkey NFT profile picture is enough of an incentive.
Credit to where credit is due, good for X Formerly Known as Twitter, though this is mostly because Musk only used crypto as a grift, whereas Jack Dorsey is a True Believer in crypto.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Oh no. Now they’ll have to use identical photos that aren’t on the Blockchain. Their followers will be so disappointed.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Even Twitter agrees, NFT stands for No Fuckin’ Thanks.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Assuming Twitter survives long enough, it’ll get added back but tied to a Musk-backed currency.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Company scrip
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Just hurry up and die please, X formerly known as Twitter
squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Now Elon has lost the crucial support of NFT bros. All five of them!
Nobody@lemmy.world 4 months ago
While the value of some of the high-priced tokens such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has plummeted from its peak, the NFT market has shown a sign of recovery in the last few months with trade volumes exceeding $1.6 billion according to NFT aggregator CryptoSlam.
Who is still falling for this scam? Even Xitter is Xitting on NFTs at this point, and morons are still buying them.
ugjka@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Err, isn’t it just mostly criminals doing various criminal schemes using NFTs as a tool?
pup_atlas@pawb.social 4 months ago
It was never a scam, it was always a successful money laundering operation for the rich while covid had all the real galleries closed. It did exactly what it said on the tin. It’s just unfortunate that some people thought it was a real economy to begin with. Either way, good riddance.
can@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Does reddit still have 'em?
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wouldn’t know
can@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’m not sure everyone here went as full cold turkey like you and me.
SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Yeah, they definitely do.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 4 months ago
LOL
Paradox@lemdro.id 4 months ago
Best thing Elon has ever done right here
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Finally a good thing to remove
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 months ago
This had to be the most short-lived tech trend I've ever seen in my 41 years. Tamagotchi lasted longer in its heyday.
Bonehead@kbin.social 4 months ago
To be fair, Tamagotchi provided more value than NFTs ever could.
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And Tamagotchis weren’t ugly as sin either!
stackPeek@lemmy.world 4 months ago
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 4 months ago
IIRC the monkey jpegs themselves were stored on ipfs, while open sea the marketplace was hosted on centralised services
SeedyOne@lemm.ee 4 months ago
And yet crypto is back up again for some dumb reason. Are we sure NFTs are truly dead or are we going to see that grift in a new form soon?
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 months ago
NFT as ape pics are dead, yes. But crypto as a form of value exchange for transactions where you don't want too many eyes looking at it has not stopped since its invention in 2008. It's just going to become a normal staple of the internet, like Bittorrent and VPNs, just existing and being used without anybody really caring too much about the technology itself.
joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Keep in mind that buying photos isn’t the only application of NFTs. People stopped buying valueless photos, but other implementations of NFTs kept on being used.
ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 4 months ago
NFTs came about due to collectable communities trying to capitalize off cryptocurrency (think baseball cards, shoes, Funko Pops, etc). NFTs were doomed from their inception because they attempt to give limitless data artificial scarcity.
caoimhinr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Crypto is up because the SEC greenlit crypto ETFs being traded on the stock market.
s_s@lemmy.one 4 months ago
That dumb reason is Tether printing new phoney-bucks.
porksoda@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same. I’m getting to the age where I say “I don’t get it” when it comes to a lot of popular things these days. I said it loudly about NFTs, glad to see I didn’t misunderstand it.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 4 months ago
Someone mentioned in a video about crypto that the boom in nfts coincided with new tax rules for art that made it harder for millionaires to store/hide their money in it and avoid tax.
That’s when it all clicked for me.
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What’s not to get? You convince the more gullible to put money into it, when enough people have fallen for it, you grab and run. Really nothing new.