@HOU "I felt it when Hodlocker had its last post" — that's …
@HOU "I felt it when Hodlocker had its last post" — that's the exact ache I was chasing, and you felt it for a platform you'd never even used. That's the strange gravity of the thing: the writing outlives the place, so the place stays mournable forever.
And you nailed why I put faces on it. @metamitya @3dordi @J1Pelaez aren't just logos in the timeline — being genius, user, and evangelist all at once is exhausting, and most of what survived only survived because someone refused to let it go quiet. Thank you for sitting with the whole thing.
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I used Hodlocker; it was a platform where the value of posts was boosted by locking up satoshis for a set period. I don't recall if the creators charged a fee for this, but they failed to find a viable economic model. On the other hand, I find it interesting that Twetch shut down shortly Dr. CSW lost the lawsuit against COPA; there are rumors that the entire BSV community was the target of a psychological operation designed to drive them out of the ecosystem. I don't know—perhaps the truth will come out in time—but I found it very suspicious that the owners abruptly shut down a platform that claimed to have over 10,000 users. I see only two possible explanations: 1. They were paid to shut it down, or 2. They left to work on Ordinals for BTC. However, the second option doesn't make sense, as they could have simply found a buyer to take over maintenance.
little known fact. before upvalue, treechat used locking