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I feel as if it is time that the community comes together, in whatever medium necessary, to create ONE, UNIFIED, authoritative resource location for all things Monero.
There's too many fragmented communities, forums, too many websites with bad or even dangerous information, fake miners, schemes, well you get the point.
I'm not saying any of the legit resources should go away, but there needs to be one repository for all the information and links that we as community members can all point a new user to, where they can learn everything there is to know all in one place.
onemonero.com (Because 1 XMR always equals 1 XMR)
Should include: Wallets - how they work, which ones are legitimate, differences and use cases. Hardware vs software, local vs web.
Mining - how to's, software links with explanations, hashrate calc, benchmark sites (and expectation of reality)
Transacting - Buying, selling, sending, receiving, how outputs combine, what are ring signatures, etc.
Community Links: to any legit communities (Reddit, Lemmy, Matrix, IRC, and wherever someone can ask for legitimate help.
We aren't doing ourselves any favors by staying in our own little corners.
Oh, you want to get into XMR? Thirty people will tell you 90 different ways to get from A to B.
Oh, hey, there's some Monero dudes on IRC, how do I get there?
Q: Which wallet should I use?
A: Depends on your use case, mobile, desktop, hardware, app, web, etc
How do I restore a wallet?
We see all these questions every week, and the answers are usually quite similar.
If everyone in MoneroLand was aware of, and trusted one site that had as much information as could be collected, verified, and audited, we could all point to that place.
I trust the comments will include links to popular Monero information sites. I always point folks to getmonero, but there are other places out there.
Who runs the site? Ideally it would be those who are already recognized as XMR contributors, not paid YouTubers. Invite the wallet devs/owners, invite community mods (not just Rddt), invite the web designers. We don't have to dox them, but they should be recognizable in their respective communities.
Where should it be hosted?
This part I don't know enough about to make a recommendation. I'd assume there should be clearnet, onion, and definitely mirrors of some kind. Redundancy built in so if one server goes down, shut down, etc the info is still accessible.
With the global pushback against Monero, and the worsening of legitimate search sites being poisoned by inaccurate AI results and sponsored links (ads), finding good information and help will become even harder.
It kills me every time someone posts about how they lost all their funds because "I clicked on this Google search result which turned out to be a scam wallet" or something similar.
Imagine how much XMR knowledge disappears if Reddit were to shut down.
We can, and should, do better.
"Sway the election and change the country" is a ridiculous sensationalist headline as if every Rep/Dem/Ind./activists/political group in the country isn't trying to do the same thing, regardless of their place on the spectrum.
I'd be much more wary of the RNC and DNC than some rich guys who made their own group with a super-cool name.
Until money is limited in the political game, nothing will ever really change. Hell, we still argue about things that happened a hundred years ago. We still go back and forth over the same issues to which we all could have found compromises.
But being too busy saying "I'm right and you're wrong" is why America is rapidly falling behind.
I just want people to see that every "side" does the same thing.