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mathewi They produced no useful technology that wasn't entirely dependent on the centralized Civil site, couldn't put together the process to properly raise funds past launch & the voting process was badly compromised by mechanics of the coin system where people could buy voting power.On twitter.com
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mathewi If they really wanted to build a member-owned journalism system they'd prob be better off just traditionally funding some public radio site or incubating Defector-type sites without any of the coin nonsense.Permalink On twitter.com
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mathewi Like... I can't emphasize how mediocre it is that a project aimed at supporting decentralized multi-owner media couldn't manage to produce software that wasn't dependent on their centralized website which then went down making almost every line of code they wrote useless.Permalink On twitter.com
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mathewi The main good thing they did was give publications money, which had absolutely nothing to do w/anything coin or blockchain related and didn't leave those companies with anything having to do w/the Civil project when it shut down. They ended up member focused via traditional meansPermalink On twitter.com
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mathewi Like... Civil was entirely useless except as a channel for moving money into publications through traditional grants and then raising money for itself to develop useless software. It's an embarrassing indictment of blockchain for journalism.Permalink On twitter.com
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mathewi One of the sites Civil put out in front of their marketing most often wasn't even on the core functionality of the member-ownership technology! Chronotope/1155865170327080961 ConSenSys should just give their ex-publications over at Brick House Co-op a bunch of cash for the BS.Permalink On twitter.com
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