The stackexchange is abandoned, the subreddits feel haunted, there are sparse posts that are few and far between with limited and carefully monitored activity, there isn’t much talk about Monero even in general cryptocurrency communities other than the occasional passing mention. Did i miss something? are external factors at play?

Its almost Monero’s 10th anniversary you guys, where is everybody?

  • @monerobull
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    Most of the regulars are hanging out on matrix. There are actually a lot of exciting things in the pipeline: Monerokon, Haveno, Serai, FCMPs, etc.

    People have said the current bullrun in general is boring and the excitement is nothing compared to the last one. And Monero isn’t even participating in the current bullrun :P

    • @DisgracedDoctor@mander.xyzOP
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      Shame, during the great Fediverse migration, I expected there would be more people in Monero specific spaces as the concept of the fediverse in general aligns so well with the values behind Monero, unfortunately it seems it has just become a bubble of ideologies. I expected there would sort of be a chatter surrounding the 10th anniversary, I guess most people in the community have ‘settled’ and are done with Monero activism and I am the one who is late.

      Hung around with the Serai people(digitally) near the start of the bullrun, as I understand they plan to launch their own native coin(which I have some reservations against), and don’t really have a focus on privacy(at least right now)

      • @monerobull
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        82 months ago

        Im quite happy with the pace monero.town is growing, especially since it was initially only set up as a fallback in case the subreddit gets banned.

        Serai requires it’s own coin for the design to work, there is no real way around it.

        • @VolunTerry
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          62 months ago

          I’m happy with monero.town too

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          what I am really concerned about(an unfortunate nature of the public ledger) is coins being tainted, they were also pretty vague on any sort of launch window which I understand, I don’t really hope for Monero to moon(Its not supposed to be) but I wonder if the native XMR coin could be used in a psuedo-layer 2 like network, that generates interest by leveraging POS coins(sort of like fractional banking)

          • @monerobull
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            12 months ago

            The serai coin is mainly used as stake and pair for liquidity pools, it’s not supposed to be used for payments. Imo taint is less of an issue, you’re only at risk when not using Monero and that’s the case no matter if you got the coins from Serai or any other exchange.

      • @VolunTerry
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        62 months ago

        You’ve generated a pretty decent discussion right here in this thread you started. Stick around. I think it will continue to grow here.

      • silverpill
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        62 months ago

        @DisgracedDoctor @monero @monerobull I think this is because monero today is a boring tool that just works. The community calmed down and many activists/shills moved to greener pastures. This is probably a good thing

        If you want more activity in fediverse, you can try to get micro-blogging sector going. There are many people who are interested in monero but no organization. I’ve seen a couple of accounts run by projects which mostly cross-post from twitter and do not engage with audience. No follow lists. We had a xmrposter Pleroma instance, but it was shut down.

      • @gunnm
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        22 months ago

        If you go to Monero’s X account they only share their Telegram group and website. The group is quite active.

        • @VolunTerry
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          62 months ago

          This is a good approach. Monero works as intended and has a strong use case. Use it when and where you can.

          functionality > hype

    • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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      02 months ago

      Knowledge should be available in an open forum, not constricted to a chat app which will encourage repetition. I cannot fathom how people active in the Monero community, knowing how technical it is, somehow missed this

      • @monerobull
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        22 months ago

        On matrix the meetings are held and people just generally hang out. There is still r/monero & r/monerosupport as well as monero.town but that one’s a bit less accessible for people new to Monero.