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What is the point of minting someone's work? (honest question)

Minting seems to be a mix of bookmarking, sending money, and publicly liking something. Yet it's a strange bundle that does a mediocre job at each of these 🤔

Please help me make sense of web3 🙏🏼

Freelance software engineer, developing https://healthlearn.org, altruist, learner

Why a mediocre job of those things? 

I generally mint articles on mirror as bookmarking / small support for the writer. I feel minting is better than just liking / sharing and I like that it’s tied to an address I do other things with (unlike if I subscribed with credit card for example)

Why a mediocre job?

- Unlike e.g., obsidian.md, I can't attach context / organize / share my bookmarks
- Unlike e.g., patreon.com, NFTs are only for geeks. There's a lack of features for creators
- Unlike e.g., casting "I've loved <link>", it's a weak and noisy signal; It doesn't point to the canonical destination.

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