While there are typical comments like crypto=scam “You have to be quite stupid to support crypto in 2023”, there are also replies like these (with which more people seem to agree, unexpectedly):

It’s designed to protect anyone using it - even attackers. That’s the price to pay for having privacy. The alternative is an Orwellian dystopia.

If you’re going to use Luna, FTX, and NFTs as arguments about something like Monero, […] you probably don’t really understand any of them.

It’s a bit odd that such a discussion is more active on a different Lemmy instance than here, but it’s interesting to hear honest opinions of various people about the incident, about Monero. Maybe your views are different from them, from mine. For example, one person states there that while they know exactly what Monaro is, they’re still skeptical.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There're way more people there so you can expect a more active discussion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You’re right. I’m new to social media in general, and was misunderstanding that Monero.town is where Monro-related discussions take place on Lemmy. A better interpretation seems to be: Monero.town is for Monero users, while [email protected] is where people talk about (computer) technology in general.

One is for Monero users, so it’s relatively small, quiet and cozy. The other is about technology, including but not limited to cryptocurrencies, so it’s large and busy. Since Monro is a technology, they may talk about it too. Makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. According to the subscriber count, 196 people here. Tens of thousands on Lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Never seriously checked these stats. As of writing this, [email protected] = 1.05K subscribers and only 8 users / day, that’s the largest community here if I’m not mistaken; whereas [email protected] = 47.1K subscribers, 974 users / day—roughly 100 times bigger, they’re a whale compared with monero.town. It seems our 2nd largest community is [email protected]: only 260 subscribers, 1 user / day. I (Saki) seem to be one of “privacy” mods, whatever it means. Is this a status automatically given after you created a certain number of new posts?

Anyway, I was assuming that most general people were seeing crypto negatively (because crypto-related posts tend to be automatically downvoted, even if it’s just an innocent joke as in memes, or a normal post like “Use p2pool, it’s zero-fee”), and was surprised to see those positive comments from “outsiders” (?). Apparently there are quite a few people who know Bitcoin was originally not like a “get rich quick” scheme, but it was experimental with some deep philosophy; and that Monero is in a way its spiritual successor.

Then again, many people in [email protected] are probably Linux-using geeks. As such they’re tech-savvy, not representing “general people“.