Expected.

She basically said it herself though.

At this point, I'm not sure you understand what reactionary means?

The tech being fundamentally flawed has nothing to do with payments being stopped. Show me one reason where they said it was because they weren't receiving the payments as shown by the blockchain.

India has a lot of land. Drawing a comparison between housing cost in urban India and this Portuguese farm. Honestly, it would be better if I could move to Portugal and live like this.

3 BHK flats are easily going for $110k+ in major cities. My parents bought our flat for ₹10 lakhs in 2003. Right now, it's valued at around ₹63 lakhs and only going up every year. That's fucking insane to me, more than 600% in two decades. And we live in one of the cheaper cities.

Unless you're like the top 5% of the country, major cities are just unaffordable right now. Even with the relatively privileged job I will get upon graduation, I don't see myself affording a place of my own without my parents pitching in with their savings.

Lakh = 100k

$1 = ₹82

Really expensive over here, so people only buy them for status basically. Having an iPhone signifies that you're well off enough to not worry about price.

I had a friend who said exactly this. She was just buying it to show off basically. She didn't even believe me when I said the back was glass for some reason lol. And when she got it, she had to get used to counter-intuitive behaviour like the power button cutting a WhatsApp call. She did this multiple times on a call with me, it was pretty funny!

Another friend kinda regrets buying it now because he feels locked in to the Apple ecosystem.

Personally, I don't think I'll ever switch because F-Droid is a huge part of my phone experience. When my Pixel runs out of support, I'll probably just root it.

It's a great phone. Solid hardware, good software. Just not for me.

How is this cheaper than housing in India lmao?

This makes it sound like you ate his shit...

What enormous transaction fees?

Stablecoin transfers on an Ethereum L2 like Arbitrum is a few cents and about to get even cheaper in the future. It's 1/10000 of a cent on Solana.

Monero payments are 1-3 cents.

Bitcoin has the highest one I paid, something like 12-15 cents. This can go higher like $10 if the chain is busy but you have plenty of options in the crypto space to choose the appropriate chain for payments.

I mean, it's very clear you just listen to mainstream news and actually believe their agenda.

It's reactionary politics? I'm not sure what else led to the rejection. It doesn't actively hurt them to accept crypto. They just capitulated to reactionaries in their rejection, what else would I call it?

I'm not even claiming that crypto in its current form can handle global transactional needs, but Wikipedia and Mozilla realised that it could just be an additional avenue for payments. It wasn't hurting anyone and allowed people like me to contribute. How would you like it if you couldn't pay for things because it upset other people's views of what the world should be like? Because that's what happened to me.

Wikipedia caved to white Western imperialists' demands which have no basis in reality and excluded large portions of the world, most of which are marginalised communities who don't have access to the same financial systems that Westerners do.

I'm just glad that SciHub isn't headed by a reactionary but an actual person who cares about our rights to free and fair access to all things. And SciHub proves the need for an alternate financial system that isn't dominated, or at least, directly controllable by vested interests of the Western financial system.

Your rant is not contrarian for Western imperialists who don't want another financial system competing with their current hegemony.

That's why crypto is hated by Westerners while most others have neutral to positive opinions of it generally.

And the transaction fees argument and time needed for confirmation doesn't even make sense? Wikipedia doesn't need to pay any fees to accept crypto and it's not like they're a business which needs the money a second after the transaction. Even if they did need it that quickly, there are plenty of choices in crypto that settle much faster than Bitcoin, which they used.

I definitely agree with your stance that we should exclude people from things because it's inconvenient. This is why I don't support accessibility measures in any domain.

I don't even understand what your point is? Wikipedia doesn't have to pay fees to accept crypto? They could keep other payment options too, no one said credit cards should not be allowed. They could just provide the address for the centralised exchange and sell it for cash with minimal problems.

What I'm finding out is that people have a bad case of Dunning-Kruger when it comes to crypto and it's usually privileged Westerners who don't care if other people are included or not. Just straight up racists.

I don't get it

Honestly, they are pretty well funded and don't need the money. I just redirected my money to SciHub and Lemmy now.

Again, price volatility had nothing to with Wikipedia stopping crypto donations.

You can hate all you want, crypto is the only way I have to pay for a lot of things and it has definitely helped me more than reactionary moralists from the West living large in their oppression funded country.

I didn't call them woke. Hell, people would probably call me woke if they asked about my political preferences. Being woke and being a reactionary pawn are two different things.

Except it was complaints from reactionaries which made them delete the option to donate through crypto after accepting it for years!

So, they were worried that an asset that has consistently gone up in the long term was too unstable to receive payments in? Your arguments make no sense.

I used to, but then they removed crypto because of propaganda efforts by reactionary idiots masquerading as progressives. Now, I have no way to donate to them.

Yeah killing millions of people was totally worth getting one man!

Now let's bomb Washington DC to rubble and kill your family so we can get to Bush, the even bigger war criminal.

What are bottle episodes?

I'm from India and it's about ₹120 ~ $1.4.

I think there's a setting to bring back the buttons, if you want that.

Settings -> System -> Gestures -> System navigation

That's not what was said. You said even if the coins are transferred to another wallet, it could be tracked to a new reddit account. It can't.

Idc about the value of Ether itself. If it maintains a healthy valuation in real world terms, that's all that is needed to secure Ethereum. I don't need to trust validators to know they are doing their job, that's how the system is designed. Validators should make sure that state integrity is preserved and that's about it. If they don't, their stake gets reduced and can even go to zero. This is exactly what it means to be trustless. The valuation of Ether is only relevant to the point that it retains enough value that attacking the network becomes prohibitively expensive.

Market manipulation is a function of people and non-transparent dealings. If anything, fully onchain finance would allow information asymmetry to be reduced so that regular people can beware of such frauds.

Are there con artists? Of course. Why would that make me not try to build a better system than "regulated finance" which is the same, if not worse, deal but where I am not allowed to participate by regulators who act as gatekeepers.

Ether by itself is useless, its value is determined by how much demand blockspace on Ethereum has. This is a better system than my government imposing capital controls and taxing the shit out of me without even giving me a good bus to ride on to work.

Anyway, like it was said, if you don't get it, it's not really my job to convince you, but I hope you don't go around spreading misinformation like you are doing right now.

No, they can't. How would an EOA created in any standard wallet be linked to a Reddit vault?

Yes, but they can't be linked to a reddit account, which was your whole point.

Already watched it and I agree with a lot of points. Crypto is still better than a monetary system that can be trivially weaponised by the government.

You can transfer it to a wallet that is not linked to reddit.

And Ethereum is not like Bitcoin anymore, so the environmental concerns are reduced.

Next you'll tell me you weren't even born in this century!

I think @Laticauda@lemmy.ca has already made a good point regarding your example.

I'm not judging you or anything, just that the appreciation could have been shown without comparing it to Sync. It can come off as a bit combative, when you didn't mean it like that.

I just used a VPN to the EU and refused. Yeah it sucks that governments don't care, but nothing I can do about it right now.

As for Play Services, most people will never run a degoogled phone. So, that's that.

I honestly never fancied musical episodes, but this was so well done, I loved it!

I mean, a lot of people who watch this probably don't even know what Buffy is. I've never watched Buffy, it's a pretty old show.

I think it's a little uncharitable to Sync to characterise it like this. Yes, it collects personal data to show ads. However, you have the choice to refuse or pay a one time fee to get rid of it entirely. It's the nonconsensual nature of data collection that robs users of their agency that makes it problematic.

Devs need to eat and donations are not always a realistic revenue scheme. With the one time fee, Sync has signalled it cares about its users and not just value extraction like Big Tech. I will probably pay that and be happy.

I like Liftoff, I also like Sync. I use both atm.

I think people have already answered your question. Just to add on, think about stuff that happened before the creation of an IP regime. Were people not creating things back then?

I would also like to clarify that I'm not talking about forcing people to reveal their secrets. If you want to keep your thing a secret, you're welcome to. But, there should be no state prosecution if that thing gets made public.

And I do buy things if I enjoyed them and want to reward the creators. When I was a poor kid with no funds, I pirated a lot of videogames. Now that I'm a slightly older kid with some funds, I buy the games that I enjoy and my game piracy has gone down a lot. Without piracy, these future sales from me would have been lost because I probably wouldn't care about videogames. Not a justification, just my feelings.

All piracy is ethical because Intellectual Property is a lie.

I will pirate from megacorps and indies, anyone who sets up a demand based distribution system for products.

The only products I will not pirate are those that have a needs based distribution system and are finite.

Is downloading people human trafficking?

100% of the crypto hate I see is from citizens of neocolonial states. You lord your control of the financial system over us and when something threatens it, it's always delegitimised for any number of reasons.

Take your pick: scam, destroying the environment, eroding state power etc.

A decentralised system/society will need a value layer to transact. You think Visa should be in control of that?

Just because you don't like it, doesn't make it snake oil. I hope you never find yourself at the mercy of a government that persecutes you and imposes capital control so you can't even run away with your money. If crypto existed when my people were literally being genocided, my parents would not have to end up in a new country with nothing to their name.

Why would I want a nation state to run on anything? The end of the nation state is the communist utopia!

I am for whatever erodes the illegitimate violence exerted by nation states to safeguard their parasitic domain. If it's crypto, it's crypto. If people not eating apples brought about their end, I would be out there burning orchards.

Why are the Lemmy devs asking for snake oil on their Donate page then?

Sitting comfy in a country where the financial system works for you elites is the real snake oil.

Socialism is actually full daddy-state.

Communism would be a stateless existence.