Post B0yyL2vSAKxtNZQJf6 by yaxu@post.lurk.org
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 (DIR) Post #B0yr2jj66tQCwSxyYi by yaxu@post.lurk.org
       2025-12-06T11:21:00Z
       
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       I really want to be interested in this "dark forest theory of the internet" but just listened to their podcast about the economics of it and they just went on and on about using substack and discord as if that was somehow revelatory? I couldn't get the point of what they were saying at all. Then they talked about how charging for membership of their closed group didn't really make money but helped weed people out, with no consideration that some people don't have spare cash? Then went into crypto and I tuned out but there was something about tax..https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/115662439422697358
       
 (DIR) Post #B0yr2yVp8WiUnds5S4 by neauoire@merveilles.town
       2025-12-06T18:49:52Z
       
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       @yaxu Anything Metalabel touches is a grift. This feeling you describe "I really want to be interested ..", is their main product. They were huge during the NFTs era.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0yyL2vSAKxtNZQJf6 by yaxu@post.lurk.org
       2025-12-06T20:11:09Z
       
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       @neauoire Ah they are NFT people? This all starts to make sense now ..
       
 (DIR) Post #B0yz7VRDSdIRhzO6EK by tehn@merveilles.town
       2025-12-06T20:20:09Z
       
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       @neauoire @yaxu "private slack channels" as the future frontier. these people have no credibility in culture forecasting.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0zaTV55AJRfHBNyIS by chorist@merveilles.town
       2025-12-07T03:18:56Z
       
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       @neauoire @yaxu I find their stuff really interesting and I take it more as coming from the perspective of a lot of people working in various art/culture industries where tech is not necessarily a person’s strength or focus, and these are the tools that are being commonly used to cobble together a way to make a living from all of it online. They were on the nft train but seemed like one of the few that believed there could be something real in it in terms of new opportunities for creative work (and have since moved away from those ideas that didn’t pan out)