this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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The decentralised finance club needs to make their core values poster bigger and easier to understand

We’re here in 2023 and they still forget that the core value of “not your keys not your wallet” is the equivalent of putting your cash under your mattress instead of using a bank and the complexity that comes with that is unavoidable.

You can get more people to use a mediocre product/technology by making it easy to use

People will use complex products/technologies if they are useful enough.

But these people can’t make it useful so they keep banging their head against the wall trying to make it more simple.

It is inevitable that they will try the even lazier route of deceiving people into thinking it is simple.

Nitter: https://nitter.net/evanvar/status/1699032296870015232

edit: changed title to reduce keyword matches in lemmy fediverse searches

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

here's a stupid meme that might explain my post

freeway exit meme: "make it useful" straight ahead "make it seem simple" freeway exit that "web3" car is taking