Cut Crypto/NFT Support
The notion of Crypto/NFT integration into Discord is immensely disappointing. I like Discord as a product - it's a good, easy way to keep in touch with communities and friends, and the user experience in general has been good. I'd rather not leave it - but integrating crypto/NFT stuff into the application lies in support of something disingenuous, actively harmful, and just plain distasteful.
So please cut the plans for crypto/NFT support. You can see how overwhelmingly negatively your userbase is responding to it, and if you implement this, well - that's a good chunk of your userbase that'll no longer be there, and I will be among their number.
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I'm seconding this wholeheartedly. Discord as a platform does not need to parade support for these destructive and incredibly wasteful technologies.
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NFTs allow for copywriting your work. Why would you want that removed ? How does anybody actually think that's disingenuous ? actively harmful ? distasteful ? So if i take photos of a tree at the beach and copywrite them via NFT, im not genuine, im actively hurting people and lack taste ? If i play the piano while people slowdance and i record that to publicly share it and sell if people want to keep it, because i used NFT to copywrite. I am now not genuine ? am actively hurting someone ? I lack taste because i play, record and share whatever piano riff tune comes out that night ?
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There already exists a tangible, workable, and frankly much less destructive solution to the use case you've described, and you actually mentioned it in your post: it's called copyright. You don't need NFTs to copyright your products.
When you use NFTs, there's no active legal or technical mechanism that prevents other people from using your media. It's just a tiny little transaction encoded under layers and layers and layers of arduous blockchain data structures and hashes that people can dig up, and sure - it'll say that the product belongs to you. But that's it! It has no legal power, or inherent worth, or value. NFTs are considered /destructive/ because the processing power required to deal with them and get your proof is absolutely immense; that's kinda why you have crypto farms and stuff with literal warehouses full of computers that do NOTHING but process these blockchain datastructures and transactions.
Here's the lowdown on why that's bad:
- The sheer scope of literally anything needing WAREHOUSES full of computers to process is so ridiculously large that its energy consumption does have a tangible impact on the environment. A lot of electrical usage is not a carbon neutral process - and in an attempt to maximise their profits, it's in some folks' best interests to have several orders of magnitude of NFTs circulating. It's not a scalable or sustainable process!
- Adding to that, this process requires computers. A significant part of our component material shortages - the reason we can't ship consoles or graphics cards - are due to resources being actively used up by these warehouses that need more computers to maintain their NFT/crypto processes. It's not just the consumer market that's affected: these component materials and resources could be used in machines that would otherwise HELP people; research projects for the sake of technological or scientific advancement or otherwise.
- And your end result? You get a tiny strip of code that says you own something, with no legal staying power or any mechanical measure that actually... stops people from making copies of the thing you claim to own anyway. There is no world in which that would be worth it.There's a slew of other reasons why NFTs have a historically awful track record (significant among them include art theft!) but it all comes to the same bottom line. NFTs and crypto produce no tangible value and are actively destructive in the processes necessary to sustain them. They aren't worth it.
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