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> They won't require any subscription, existing data is never at risk of being wiped out, and hopefully we will […] get back to apps that just work, without the cruft or bad incentives. We're here to make that happen!
I fail to see what the advantages are of having a calendar app/service implemented as a DAO.
I can see the advantages of federation (ala email or the fediverse), and I can see the advantages of a "local first" approach, but what does a web3/DAO bring to the party?
The trustless use-cases I can imagine are quite sociopathic, like selling appointment slots with price discrimination, or reserving a slot for a smaller fee, or allowing resale of appointments or reservations, or remaking any and all of the above transactions into auctions.
Turning every little thing into a multi-sided market sounds exhausting and pathological.
You can apply this sort of thinking to other existing app/site categories, like wikis. No longer do you have to endure edit wars, you can just bid to finalize your preferred version! Unless 50% of the editors veto your edit, in which case you forfeit your bid. Oh joy, now a bad faith actor can't just pay one wiki editor under the table to slant the content your way, you have to bribe a whole bunch to prevail. Yes, that would be a huge improvement.
I don't know, perhaps I am lacking in imagination, but the negative social consequences of monetizing relationships and social transactions are pretty well known and I'm not really seeing a commensurate benefit:
https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine...