Metaforo.io - Web3 Native Forum for Web 3 Governance

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While exploring the forums of various DAOs, I found an interesting thread about Metaforo.io as an alternative for Discourse: Should we move BanklessDAO’s forum from Discourse to a Web3 native forum platform - metaforo.io
It looks like this project is trying to solve the problems we discussed earlier.
I like the list of features. Especially the support for Gnosis safe, which we use in MTLFarm:

“Gnosis safe is supported to ensure that the DAO community has full ownership over the platform.”

Basic features are free. They plan to make profit on additional perks:

“Our business model involves adding advanced features to Metaforo, such as Mint and Collect content NFTs, a DAO treasure dashboard, and issuing community tokens and NFTs for the DAO.”

However, we will have to pay for data storage on Arweave. I don’t know how much, we have to do the math.

The list of features:

Metaforo is Web3 native with decentralized data ownership

  • Wallet connections are used to reinforce identity validation and prevent Sybil attacks on voting.
  • The DAO Admin can issue SBT (Staked Based Token) to members as proof of work, increasing the authenticity of proposals and votes.
  • Wallet integration makes it easy to reward contributors with tokens, NFTs, and POAPs.
  • A mobile app with push notifications is available to encourage higher voting participation rates.
  • Token gated pools are supported, and voting power is calculated using snapshot strategies to ensure fair distribution of voting power.
  • Voting delegation is supported.
  • Snapshot strategies are displayed to keep the forum and governance processes in one place and make it easy to understand how proposals are being evaluated and selected.
  • Gnosis safe is supported to ensure that the DAO community has full ownership over the platform.
  • Decentralized data storage on Arweave.
  • Best of all, there is no monthly payment required to use Metaforo - it’s completely free to use!

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Some Crypto Projects that have made metaforo.io their new home recently:

What do you think?

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TLDR: Horrible. Another centralized corporate unfree SaaS keeping you hostage and trading your metadata

Metaforo is a proprietary “software as a service” registered in US and operating under the law of State of California.

There is no source code shown officially. According to EULA[1] you are not owning the source code, Metaforo Inc only temporary allows you to use it until you “misbehave”:

You have no ownership rights in the Service. Rather, you have a license to use the Service as long as this License Agreement remains in full force and effect.
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Metaforo may terminate this License Agreement for any reason

However, I’ve found this repo: GitHub - metaforo/comment3: A Social web3 comment system.. Looks half-assed. Updated two years ago, chinese contributors. Corresponding npm package[2] was updated a year ago (how so? Where is the source code for this update?)

Metaforo collects the data from your browser enough to make your digital fingerprint[3]. They may share the data with advertisers and law enforcement[4].

I stopped diggging at this point, I believe it is enough to make a conclusion.

  1. https://metaforo.io/eula ↩︎

  2. @dforo3/metaforo-sdk NPM | npm.io ↩︎

  3. https://metaforo.io/privacy#info-we-collect ↩︎

  4. https://metaforo.io/privacy#sharing-the-info-collected ↩︎

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