I've Moved Onchain | AVC

I have followed Fred Wilson's blog for decades. I have always admired how he engages directly in the tech that he is investing in. I saw that he was mirroring his blog posts on a web3 service for a while, but I didn’t realize he had switched his publishing entirely to that now. Wilson articulates the things that he was trying to solve by doing this.

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

Second, the services that I use to create AVC.com are not "composable" meaning that others cannot build things on top of AVC.com and the services that create and display the posts I create here.

Third, the identities of the authors (me) and readers (you) here at AVC.com are not tied to any sort of portable identity and reputation system.

While none of these issues may seem like a big deal to you, they are huge deal to me as I will explain in a bit.

As a nearly two-decade blogger I also see these issues as problems. I would also like to make sure that my blog lasts as long as I can possibly make it. Hopefully much longer than I last. I still find the web3 publishing services to be difficult to use, but I have confidence that with time they will be just as easy as any else. I’m glad to see Wilson making this jump.