https://www.goodboyjojo.com/ jojo's personal blog htpps://goodboyjojo.com/posts/2025-11-03-crypto-lost-its-soul.html Remember when crypto was about decentralization, empowerment, and giving power back to the people? When the dream was to build a new kind of internet — open, borderless, and community-owned? Yeah, that’s all gone now. What started as a digital rebellion against Wall Street has slowly become Wall Street with worse UX and more memes. Crypto used to attract hackers, artists, and idealists — people who wanted to change how money worked. Then the finance bros showed up. Suddenly, it wasn’t about innovation; it was about yield farming, pump-and-dumps, and “number go up.” The space became an echo chamber of alpha calls, “networking” on yachts, and endless Twitter threads about how someone’s dog coin was going to “revolutionize payments.” Now, the culture feels less like the cypherpunk underground and more like a frat house with Bloomberg terminals. Every project has a “tokenomics lead” and a “growth hacker,” but no one seems interested in actually building something useful. The ethos of decentralization got replaced by the hustle culture of speculation. Crypto didn’t just get co-opted — it got rebranded into another asset class for people who already had too many. And in the process, it lost the very thing that made it exciting in the first place: purpose. Maybe, someday, the idealists will take it back. Until then, it’s hard not to look at crypto and think: we wanted freedom, and all we got was finance bros in Patagonia vests talking about “liquidity.” htpps://goodboyjojo.com/posts/2025-05-03-I-miss-the-old-net.html hello everybody this is jojo an today i just want to talk about the current state of the internet. i miss when the web was a place you went on and if you knew some basic html could make your own place within it. Now most of the userspace of the internet is owned by 3 or 4 megacorps using algorithms, ai and other things to keep you on the site so they can shove ads down your thoat and make money off you by selling user data. I miss when the internet was less corporate and more like the wild west where it was a fronteir of self-expression and having stake in your own personal homestead of cyberspace. The internet seemed more fun back then years ago then it does now. that is all i have to say and think you for coming to my ted talk https://goodboyjojo.com/posts/2024-05-20-learning-javascript.html hello everybody reading this I've been teaching myself javascript so i can make web games and apps for fun. i have a couple of ideas of what i want to make and mabye i can make my ideas a reality after some practice. i remember when i was in college they tried to teach me javascript but most of it went over my head and i had a bunch of things going on in my life then so i dropped out of college after one semester. im in a better place now and decided to self-teach instead of going back to college. https://goodboyjojo.com/posts/2024-04-13-First-post.html hello everybody this is jojo and i would like to announce that im using zonelets for my website. I was goofing around on itch looking at the random stuff hosted there and thats where i found zonelets. I thought it would be neat to play around with it and use it for my website. so yeah that's pretty much it