Ask HN: Jaded about the internet?
It was exciting when I was a teenager but now I am a fifty year old lady who is just trying to use it to get paid for drawing stuff and I am really tired of fighting the social media corporations&#x27; constant decisions to de-emphasize posts with offsite links to places where I can get people to pay for my work. The thought of pivoting to making vertical videos because all the kids are on TikTok now feels incredibly exhausting, especially because I know it&#x27;ll probably be replaced by yet another corporate-owned social site with its own bullshit in a year or two.<p>NFTs just seem to add an extra layer of bullshit where every transaction happens via a bunch of people wasting an absurd amount of energy to perform useless computation in hopes of being the one who wins the lottery for some cryptocurrency. Don&#x27;t tell me your favorite crypto&#x27;s moving off of PoW, it&#x27;s wasting incredible amounts of energy <i>right now</i> and moving off of that relies on getting a consensus from people who are financially incentivized to stay on PoW.<p>(The most damning sentiment about NFTs I&#x27;ve seen is that there are two groups who are historically at the forefront of new ways to get paid on the internet: porn makers and furries. And <i>neither of them is into NFTs</i>.)