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my tiny protest against the free mint meta: why i've decided to no longer sell full pieces on free mint platforms. https://paragraph.xyz/@tinyrainboot/free-mint-meta

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my 1 month august break from zora, etc. turned into an indefinite break ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ for me, i don't even think it's so much about the dropping prices (i was airdropping lots of things anyways) but it was as u also mentioned – the removal of controls. that, more than anything for me, really changed the vibe. now i'm kind of like, why bother? the other thing i've noticed, which i feel really bad about, is that since this all went down, i feel like i've lost a lot of interest in collecting. like before it felt better (still not the best) that a single mint provided slightly more tangible support for the artist. now that it's devalued so much, it feels no different than just pressing like on social. so when i'm busy and i'll just quickly press like rather than go through the steps to connect, sign, load wallet, change app, etc. to send 25 cents (╥_╥) i also see ppl increase their output frequency and churn things out to compensate and this content overload makes me less interested in collecting as well

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thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and experience. i was really thinking a lot about very internet printout, the mechanics at the time were so fitting for that project. it’s ok that things change, but i agree with you in the sense that i’m losing motivation to create or collect onchain.

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for me, the promise of "web3" or sovereign internet or whatever u want to call it meant that u had more control over what u put online (on the blockchain.) you know, the whole read, write, *own* thing. when basic options start getting stripped out of services and narrowed to one very particular vision, it just makes me feel like a cog in a someone else's machine when i first started creating in this space, i wrote my own contracts in order to have full control. at the time, marketplaces only offered very limited communal contracts so coding diy was the only way. over time, it got better as platform tooling/ownership improved and i felt more comfortable putting my work on platform contracts. now it feels like it's going back again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so the disadvantages of using convenient platforms now is outweighing the advantages and i might as well just write my own contracts again if i want to preserve stuff onchain

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