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X has silently removed the feature for paid subscribers to set an NFT as a profile picture, which was introduced in 2022.
  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    1251·
    10 months ago

    This had to be the most short-lived tech trend I’ve ever seen in my 41 years. Tamagotchi lasted longer in its heyday.

      • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        IIRC the monkey jpegs themselves were stored on ipfs, while open sea the marketplace was hosted on centralised services

    • PorkSoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Same. I’m getting to the age where I say “I don’t get it” when it comes to a lot of popular things these days. I said it loudly about NFTs, glad to see I didn’t misunderstand it.

      • Fisk400@feddit.nuEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Someone mentioned in a video about crypto that the boom in nfts coincided with new tax rules for art that made it harder for millionaires to store/hide their money in it and avoid tax.

        That’s when it all clicked for me.

      • beebarfbadger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        What’s not to get? You convince the more gullible to put money into it, when enough people have fallen for it, you grab and run. Really nothing new.

    • SeedyOne@lemm.eeEnglish
      93·
      10 months ago

      And yet crypto is back up again for some dumb reason. Are we sure NFTs are truly dead or are we going to see that grift in a new form soon? One can only hope it’s the former.

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
        18·
        10 months ago

        NFT as ape pics are dead, yes. But crypto as a form of value exchange for transactions where you don’t want too many eyes looking at it has not stopped since its invention in 2008. It’s just going to become a normal staple of the internet, like Bittorrent and VPNs, just existing and being used without anybody really caring too much about the technology itself. I still use it to pay for some online services where I basically just want to hand them the internet equivalent of a wad of cash without giving anyone any account details of any kind. I’ve been doing that since 2013, the NFT thing just kinda came and went and I didn’t care too much about it.

      • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.caEnglish
        92·
        10 months ago

        Keep in mind that buying photos isn’t the only application of NFTs. People stopped buying valueless photos, but other implementations of NFTs kept on being used.

        • squiblet@kbin.social
          31·
          10 months ago

          Right… the technology conceivably has value as a way to digitally trade ownership and track authenticity. It just happens that it was used for a bunch of truly worthless algorithmically generated art that people got suckered into by hype.

      • ililiililiililiilili@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        NFTs came about due to collectable communities trying to capitalize off cryptocurrency (think baseball cards, shoes, Funko Pops, etc). NFTs were doomed from their inception because they attempt to give limitless data artificial scarcity.

      • s_s@lemmy.oneEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        That dumb reason is Tether printing new phoney-bucks.

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1222·
    10 months ago

    That was one feature that was actually useful. Immediately you knew if you should just block someone and move on.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    10 months ago

    I would imagine the sheer embarrassment of having an really ugly monkey NFT profile picture is enough of an incentive.

    Credit to where credit is due, good for X Formerly Known as Twitter, though this is mostly because Musk only used crypto as a grift, whereas Jack Dorsey is a True Believer in crypto.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    331·
    10 months ago

    Oh no. Now they’ll have to use identical photos that aren’t on the Blockchain. Their followers will be so disappointed.

  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    28·
    10 months ago

    Even Twitter agrees, NFT stands for No Fuckin’ Thanks.

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    10 months ago

    While the value of some of the high-priced tokens such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has plummeted from its peak, the NFT market has shown a sign of recovery in the last few months with trade volumes exceeding $1.6 billion according to NFT aggregator CryptoSlam.

    Who is still falling for this scam? Even Xitter is Xitting on NFTs at this point, and morons are still buying them.

    • ugjka@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Err, isn’t it just mostly criminals doing various criminal schemes using NFTs as a tool?

    • pup_atlas@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      It was never a scam, it was always a successful money laundering operation for the rich while covid had all the real galleries closed. It did exactly what it said on the tin. It’s just unfortunate that some people thought it was a real economy to begin with. Either way, good riddance.

          • stackPeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            Me too–Boost for reddit still works, and that’s the reason you’ll see two Boost icon in my app drawer haha. Starting to think about quitting permanently though, the amount of spam/karma bots are increasing since APIpocalypse, it starts to lost the fun. The fact this year is an election year both in my country and in USA doesn’t help either…

          • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            10 months ago

            I tried patching Sync a few times way back but kept failing.

            Edit: actually, I got curious and tried again now and it worked. I probably messed up the text file before. I’m still not going to contribute there but now the odd google search result will be more comfortable.