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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    There is a thing in crypto called “ux/acc” which, from what I can fathom, is a new way to avoid thinking about why it isn’t being adopted

    tweet reads: "Ethereum UX is still a sticking point, but we have amazing people coordinating around solving this problem (shout out to @0xcoconutt). Wallets are improving, bridges are improving, chain abstraction protocols are entering prod, and cross-L2 UX is generally improving." qoute tweet reads: "it's time for ux/acc"

    • sinedpick@awful.systemsEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      crypto/blockchain UX quality is strongly correlated with risk of getting all your tokens stolen.

      • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        I’ve written about this a few times, like this one from https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/ but I think you’ve summed it up perfectly

        Nothing could make this more evident than the crypto/web3 community’s obsession with “mass adoption” which they generally resolve to being a UX problem. They know that the complexity of crypto is intimidating to non-technical people (crimes and scams aside) so they relentlessly try to remove as much of the complexity as possible.

        The unfortunate thing about removing complexity is that you never remove it, but rather, you move it to another place. The other place is always what crypto people like to call a “trusted third party” the very thing that Bitcoin, was created to eliminate.

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      15 years to realize their UIs might be bad. How many years until they realize UI and system design (including protocols, backend, etc) are inextricably linked?

    • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      sometimes I’m trying to decide whether to pay for a bagel with credit or ethereum, and I go with credit because it’s got nice bridges, chain abstraction protocols and cross-L2 UX