Comment by capableweb
4 years ago
I have no opinion for/against NFTs for various use cases, but I will say this:
If you don't understand what something is ("I'm not sure what they are"), then I don't think you can go around telling people what they do/don't solve ("they definitely don't solve this").
We'd be better off sharing opinions about things we do have knowledge about, rather than guessing. And if we do guess, make it clear it's just a guess.
It's a turn of phrase.
I know how NFTs work, I know how people use them, I don't think it's useful for the things people use it for and I don't know what it might be useful for, though I don't reject the idea it might be useful for something.
There's a lot of things we don't understand and have useful opinions on.
I have unknown pieces of electronics I have no idea what they do, but can be sure it won't be part of my diner.
I also don't know much about NFTs but fully assume they don't solve font subpixel smoothing.
Ironically, if you yourself knew more about the domain, you would realize the person you’re responding to is correct.