This thread is where new users can introduce themselves.
I'll start:
My name is jsavage. I'm from Alexandria, VA (a suburb of Washington DC in the U.S) and am half-Japanese (spent summers going to school in Japan, but that's a story for another day). Went to Virginia Tech for undergrad where I studied math (after switching out of computer science), then got a Masters at Columbia University in NYC. Lived in NYC for 5 years working as a software engineer until I decided to leave and travel the world. I realized I actually preferred being abroad, so 5 years later I'm still out here having visited 44+ countries and lived in and lived in countries/cities like Japan, South Korea, Italy, Czech Republic, Serbia, Ukraine, Colombia, Bali, etc.
In my free time I like to write, make videos, and travel (obviously)
I started zsync after over a decade of frustration with similar sites like Reddit and Hacker News, and after realizing the possibilities that web3/crypto enables. The purpose of this project is to create a superior decentralized community platform and solve a personal problem. Excited to see where this goes.
EDIT: Updated Introductions thread here: https://zsync.xyz/p/introductions-k5fcffhx
This thing has so much potential man ... I've already posted it elsewhere but:
The idea has A LOT of potential. @nwienert, when I saw that I had to connect a wallet, I actually thought that posting a comment would cost some very low ETH/MATIC/whatever price.
It would actually be great to prevent stupid, knee jerk, spam and other comments.
There's also the possibility of "accumulating" part of the charged comment amounts and spread it between a) The original poster and b) maybe the top N commenters (after a week maybe?).
I don't know if you know, but, back in my day ,there was something called Hashcash which was envisioned to minimize or prevent Email Spam. Hashcash the precursor to one aspect of cryptocurrencies (the infamous PoW mining).
Man, this has so much potential.