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Re:Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features by 1attice on Monday March 13, 2023 @07:19PM (#35144639)
You can almost measure the decline in our civilization's reading ability when, on HN, when you say "I disbelieve X but it's too bad it's fake" and people respond as if you said "yay X".

It would appear that anything east of a subjunctive clause is unparseable to a good portion of the readership. Disappointing.

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Re:Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features by Semioj on Monday March 13, 2023 @07:28PM (#35144749)
It was never an attempt.

No one cared about any artist.

My comment pointed out how ridiculous nft was from the beginning.

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Re:Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features by vorpalhex on Monday March 13, 2023 @07:25PM (#35144719)
HN's readership has shifted. It has before too but generally returned to the mean. This latest shift which seemed to be in the last two years has been large enough that we did not return to that mean and have instead deviated greatly into the direction of reddit.
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Re:Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features by 1attice on Monday March 13, 2023 @07:30PM (#35144791)
Yes, I've noticed this as well. It's the slashdot of 2023.
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Re:Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features by loeg on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:28PM (#35145447)
People reasonably took issue with your statement, "I do bemoan the failure of yet another attempt to provide artists with revenue," which implied that NFTs were ever an attempt to provide artists with revenue. They were not. This is not a reading comprehension issue except perhaps on your end.
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