DAO votes to join Blender Development Fund as Patron member

Always glad to see funds go to a great and well managed Open source project like Blender!<p>That said, looking up what the hell is &#x27;Decentraland&#x27; and how it works is to dive into a dystopian nightmare. Cutesy illustrations tell you: &#x27;Decentraland: it&#x27;s like a second rate RPG, except instead of in game currency you have to use your actual cash to participate in a tech-bro pyramid scheme where each coin has the climate impact equivalent to burning down a substantial area of rainforest&#x27;.<p>Blender foundation should insist on getting cash up front ;)

For context, Patron member is at €120K+ per year, and this puts them as the 7th one. Other patron members are GPU manufacturers (Nvidia&#x2F;AMD), game engines (Epic&#x2F;Unity), Facebook (pre-Meta, but presumably for VR reasons), and AWS (no idea, publicity move to promote AWS use by game studios?). Decentraland fits in there alongside Meta.

Can someone w&#x2F; more crypto experience explain how a DAO actualizes its decisions?<p>For example: Here, there was a vote. Now what? Will Blender setup a wallet that can accept ETH? Will the DAO then vote on a transaction that sends money from the DAO to Blender&#x27;s ETH wallet??

&quot;Create, explore and trade in the first-ever virtual world owned by its users.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Join our Discord&quot;<p>In all seriousness, congrats to Blender for getting some more money.

Lots of people asking about DAOs. So here are a couple of resources you can look up.<p>To look at a large list of different DAOs with info about what tech stack they run, how big the treasuries are, etc., look here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepdao.io&#x2F;#&#x2F;deepdao&#x2F;dashboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepdao.io&#x2F;#&#x2F;deepdao&#x2F;dashboard</a><p>Here is a good article written in layman&#x27;s terms (it&#x27;s CNBC after all) about the concept and current landscape of DAOs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;25&#x2F;what-are-daos-what-to-know-about-the-next-big-trend-in-crypto.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;25&#x2F;what-are-daos-what-to-know-a...</a><p>If you want to get a peek into organizational minutiae that DAOs deal with the CabinDAO does a great of documenting it. For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;creators.mirror.xyz&#x2F;Le68ptgaqsBh1g6w8UqqVL2kIrA_Lqn37bELMO-W_-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;creators.mirror.xyz&#x2F;Le68ptgaqsBh1g6w8UqqVL2kIrA_Lqn3...</a><p>And here is a mega-collection of resources on the ever-evolving landscape by a16z: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;future.a16z.com&#x2F;dao-canon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;future.a16z.com&#x2F;dao-canon&#x2F;</a><p>I am a happy member of two DAOs in case some people think it is a conflict of interest.

I assume this is Decentraland looking to attach itself to popular open source projects for publicity. It&#x27;s actually good if it works for them, but i dont get their product. Very few people use it, their worlds look childish and nobody is in them. Yet somehow they sell their parcels for millions.<p>In contrast, opensimulator.org is open source, self-hosted, decentralized, much more beautiful, has an active and happy user base of thousands, and it gets $0 in funding from anyone. The main developer doesnt even get any donations. how does that make sense

Anyone tried decentraland? Any good?

I really need to find the time to go and learn what DAO is. But if anyone could do a ELI5 would be great.

Take the money and run!