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Little late to the party but I don't think defederation should be taken so lightly and applied on the basis of "this instance isn't aligned with solarpunk". MOST instances aren't aligned with solarpunk and thats fine IMO. If a user from that instance posted something off topic in the anarchist sub then just ban that person?

IF it becomes a major problem where they are crashing subs and stuff like that then sure lets assess defederating but the whole walled garden thing is not what I came to Lemmy for.

If you don't like crypto, dont follow those subs, if someone posts crypto offtopic on slrpnk then report it and move on.

I had a look at Nostr and it seemed more like a Twitter competitor, which is why I use Lemmy.

I'm not sure I'd call Monero an "also-ran" given that it's the only cryptocurrency that's actually regularly used as a currency, rather than just as a speculative asset/Ponzi scheme.

Sure the primary use as a currency is buying drugs, but that's still use, and plenty of people happen to like drugs.

Defederation doesn't make a place disappear from the internet, although exploding-heads is shutting down at the end of the month as apparently they got frustrated with being defederated everywhere (which reveals a lot about the real purpose of that instance).

But what I mean is: do you have any examples of monero.town users causing actual problems here on slrpnk.net or harassing people via DMs?

I remember only one such occasion and when I got in contact with the monero.town admin it was resolved pretty well on their end, so I currently don't really see an urgent need to defederate them here.

Of course there is the option to defederate as a statement of some sort, and I did so for Facebook's Threads, but as much as I think cryptocurrencies are poisoning the well, I think that monero.town is not really comparable to Facebook etc.

Isn't it fair to say that literally all cryptocurrencies in the 'proof of work' model are extremely not-solar-punk to the extent that they're kind of the antithesis of solarpunk?

I say this because under the current model these are hardware systems designed to essentially waste as much energy as possible for no good reason whatsoever

block chain tech could be useful for tracking the status, qualities, dispositions etc of physical or logistical resources in a democratic, anonymous, and decentralized way WITHOUT the equivalent energy expenditure of burning several hectares of old growth forest per hour, but that's a far cry from what these shitcoins all do.

We shouldn't defederate. The environmental impact depends on the tech and how you produce power..

Also other than cash, bartering, monero is the only currency that respects privacy.

We need privacy and anonymity in a free society, even a solar punk one.