I’ve Moved Onchain – AVC – Melissas Meals Freedom

Over the previous couple of years, I’ve moved my web life from web2 to web3 and barely use any web2 providers anymore.

So I’m beginning a collection referred to as “I’ve Moved Onchain” to clarify this journey to everybody and right now’s opening put up is about running a blog, naturally.

I’ve blogged at AVC.com for a really very long time. I began out in September 2003 at avc.typepad.com however moved to avc.com a couple of years later.

AVC.com has been my dwelling for running a blog for over twenty years.

AVC.com has served me very effectively over time nevertheless it lacks a couple of issues that actually matter to me.

First, the posts are saved in a closed database hosted by me within the cloud.

Second, the providers that I take advantage of to create AVC.com will not be “composable” that means that others can not construct issues on high of AVC.com and the providers that create and show the posts I create right here.

Third, the identities of the authors (me) and readers (you) right here at AVC.com will not be tied to any kind of moveable identification and status system.

Whereas none of those points might look like an enormous deal to you, they’re large deal to me as I’ll clarify in a bit.

So when web3 running a blog providers began cropping up, I began to make use of them.

My first rodeo was at Mirror.xyz the place I saved avc.mirror.xyz for many of 2021, 2022, and 2023. This was my first put up at avc.mirror.xyz on March 18, 2021.

I actually needed to weblog at AVC.xyz and that turned an choice for me in November 2023 after I joined Paragraph.xyz and wrote this Hey World put up.

These web3 running a blog platforms retailer all of my posts onchain at Arweave. These posts can be found to anybody to learn no matter what running a blog platform I take advantage of. And if I get kidnapped by an alien and fail to pay my internet hosting service, they are going to nonetheless exist onchain. Without end. That’s an enormous deal to me.

They’re additionally composable web3 providers. Any developer can take what I create at AVC.xyz and construct on high of it. That’s additionally an enormous deal to me. My associate Nick describes the composability profit so effectively in his put up right now on USV.com.

And my identification and the identification of my readers are mapped to a web3 pockets handle that authenticates who they’re, what they do onchain, and permits builders to create status programs on everybody. Given my battle with spam and trolls and jerks and assholes that largely drove me away from running a blog and commenting within the latter a part of the final decade, this final bit actually issues to me.

In the beginning of this 12 months, I took everybody who receives an e-mail after I put up right here at AVC.com and imported that e-mail checklist to Paragraph.xyz. So a variety of the AVC readers have been getting emails of my posts at AVC.xyz this 12 months. Besides, I nonetheless get a ton of each day site visitors right here at AVC.com and I’ve not posted something new right here since January 10, 2024.

I don’t plan to put up right here at AVC.com going ahead, however I’ll hold the archive up and I could select to cross-post a factor or two right here at any time when I wish to attain the broadest viewers.

My dwelling for running a blog is and has been onchain for some time now and if you wish to observe my writing, please go go to avc.xyz and subscribe to obtain my weblog posts through e-mail by clicking the inexperienced subscribe button on the higher proper.

However what about Mirror.xyz and avc.mirror.xyz? you may ask.

Effectively, I’m additionally thrilled to have the ability to say that Mirror and Paragraph have merged and these two main web3 running a blog providers will now be one. And, as you might know or suspect, USV has invested in each of them and now will likely be a serious shareholder within the merged firm. I’m very enthusiastic about that. Right here is Paragraph’s weblog put up in regards to the transaction and right here is Mirror’s.

The group that constructed Mirror.xyz is now turning their consideration to a brand new app referred to as Kiosk they usually blogged about that right now. So USV is now additionally an investor in that mission.

Over the past thirty years, our lives moved from offline to on-line. They’re now shifting onchain. That’s an exquisite factor and I hope you’ll be a part of me in shifting onchain as effectively.