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I mean, fuck NFTs, but this is the kind of thing they were supposed to solve. The real issue is maybe it's not a problem we should be trying to solve.

These avatars forever live on reddit's servers. Much like an old video game which hosted servers for online games, ten years down the road, maintaining these servers for fewer and fewer people playing an old game that isn't providing any new income becomes a real difficult cost to justify.

It's why people, when it comes to gaming, prefer the option where the code to run servers is released in an open source fashion, so individuals can keep running servers for the game if they wish.

I'm not really sure how to keep running servers for avatars.... Avatars that really you could "save" by fucking taking a screenshot and saving it to your hard drive. The whole thing seems a little superfluous to complain about when digital artifacts are so easily copied.

People who pay for digital content that can be sunsetted someday are fucking rubes and that's all there is to it, frankly. I mean, seriously, an avatar is just a picture. Screenshot that shit and you can use it anywhere you want. I'm confused as to why people would pay for it to begin with.

I'm further confused as to why people argue we need stuff like NFT's to break how computers already work fundamentally, to try to make it so people "own" digital artifacts instead of using the fact that everything can be copied so easily as a reason to leave that kind of selfish bullshit behind us in favor of a real sharing economy. We don't need digital ownership, we need a digital commons.

Gentle reminder that property rights are part and parcel to why a huge part of the world is experiencing a housing crisis. Maybe acting like property ownership is the be-all, end-all of the world is the problem, not the solution.

Copy that floppy!