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Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient by vmception on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @03:52AM (#30776082)
well, this was fun, past tense. analogies compare the ways dissimilar things are similar, not the ways they aren't.

this is a thread about selling them and not asking why people are willing to pay for them. so what you or I need isn't relevant, if you don't want to buy one then don't buy one. if you want to make money, sell one. unless there was some point you were trying to make, in which case there are plenty of sister threads to make that point in.

Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient by unmole on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @03:55AM (#30776096)
You came up with an analogy that doesn't make sense.
Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient by vmception on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @12:03PM (#30779883)
the similarity is that they store images for viewing

neuro-typical people got it

Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient by unmole on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @12:21PM (#30780098)
Except for the fact that they don't store images and can't display them, sure.

I'm probably too thick to understand it. But please keep repeating your bullshit analogy.

Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient by vmception on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @12:39PM (#30780346)
can't have it both ways, they either don't [ever] store, or you're too thick

NFTs can in-fact store complete binary data and complete vector data. There are some examples and some production projects doing both of those things. But more commonly they typically load a URL to an image, and people prefer that instead of a URL that its on an IPFS URI, but people accept an IPFS proxy URL.

In all scenarios, a separate technology/viewer/website is used to access the standard method which returns the data to be interpreted. Which is where things are dissimilar. Analogies don't compare aspects that are dissimilar [0]. Any one similarity satisfies the criteria for an analogy.

[0] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogy