Chris Dixon
@cdixon.eth
Asking users to pay (and go through UX hassles) to register domain names is not a mainstream user experience. It was tried many times including with RSS and didnโt work. If your protocol design relies on it, it wonโt scale. Centralized intermediaries will step in to streamline as Twitter et al did with RSS.
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@grunt.eth
that's where subdomains come in. Coinbase is doing to for free right?
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Chris Dixon
@cdixon.eth
Yes thatโs how tumblr, Twitter etc all started out but then they cut off RSS and became closed networks. Why would you trust subdomains to play out any differently than they have last 30 years?
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