daphne 🦋🦋 (parody)

Sad to see Gitcoin focus on such a distorted US-centric view of the world. "reflect the diversity of the community they serve" sounds as arbitrary as rules can go Instead of this, how about building teams and projects where all are welcome based on their merit and their skill?

✨In order to have been eligible, 50% of the project’s team must reflect the diversity of the community they serve with a particular emphasis on women, Black, Indigenous, People Of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

You’ve gotta be fuckin kidding me gitcoin☠️😭

Some sanitised thoughts on Gitcoin's DEI bonus round, which is going to be completely pointless because there's no such thing as nuance on the bird app and I'm going to get absolutely beaten in the replies A reality: funding helps to get onto the ladder if you're disadvantaged. Not all of us had the opportunity to grow up around computers, access to steady education, etc - where possible, doing that is both fair and is arguably capitalism's responsibility (and as much as I'd like to say crypto isn't capitalism, if we look at it critically it absolutely is) We can talk about pseudonymity meaning that your value is what you provide rather than your credentials, but it may well be helping someone pseudonymous to reach their potential with a small financial incentive However: if that's the case, you're already up against it here because it's a bonus round, which means that it's a top-up on a fundraise that already relies to an extent on your connections and ability to pitch a product or purpose, which you might not have There's a weaker argument to be made that if you're getting funding from a pot because you've pitched your identity in a field that prides itself on pseudonymity, you're Doing It Wrong - that's the basis on which a bunch of people are getting mad You're also inviting *industrial grade grifters*, and that's where MY objection to this lay: Gitcoin deserves every single excoriating comment purely on the basis of Daphne being on the review committee - this is exactly the kind of thing Blu3DAO were quite transparently trying to worm their way into after the Devcon incident: they were shown to contain some nuclear-strength chancers, and it's Really Cool And Good to see that Blu3 Global got funding from it as a result I think DEI efforts are Often Pretty Good Actually, but I think it's very funny to see Gitcoin getting dragged into a very American culture war while crypto is being roundly rejected by America - brainworms are everywhere