About Immutable Type
Date page last updated: February 23, 2023 | December 22, 2022 | November 22, 2022
Immutable Type is a mission-driven endeavor bootstrapped at the outset of a time which appears to be burdened by a significant bear market, an imminent global recession, ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, regional unrest in China, free-speech threats domestically in the United States, and a potentially contentious general election looming in 2024.
Under these conditions, we find ourselves amongst the most optimistic community of people who plan to improve our future, if not our present, by increasing ownership participation of new technologies and integrating close collaboration between fragmented social groups. Our small contribution in pursuit of this opportunity is to use blockchains to advance journalism for a new era.
Mission
Fortify trusted journalism via blockchain ledgers and decentralized community ownership.
Values
Journalism should be trustless
Local voice is critical for all communities
Sustainable and accessible technology will best serve communities
Bias toward localizing positive economic impact of operations
Advertising revenues imperil free speech
Community ownership decentralizes media power to local citizens
The individual should own and have absolute control of their personal data
The broadest representation of communities is critical to the social good
De-platforming and censorship destabilizes free speech and democracy
How did we get here?
I founded Immutable Type from a spare bedroom after spending decades as a professional solving marketplace problems in ‘web2’.
The product concept has emerged from my personal need to find reliable ‘news’ I could reference while navigating daily life. I have long since cut the cord from cable news, and I continue to find the online media resources today too corrupted by poor incentives to be reliable. It’s turtles, all the way down.
Immutable Type is the result of fiddling with this problem, as new technologies and social habits bubbled up from crypto, smart contracts, non-fungible tokens and DAOs to morph into a solution. Let’s commit journalism to the blockchain and invite communities to curate the work in their own interests.
Become part of the journey.
One of our values is to be accessible to all community members, which theoretically includes all eight billion people on earth. Unlike web2, we have the opportunity to disaggregate value to the individuals who participate in adopting new technologies for the public good.
The smallest possible effort one may contribute to this goal is by sharing, following, and/or engaging with contributors. Please follow the prompts below and participate by following and sharing.
Wallet holders may support our work by collecting the free-to-mint NFTs, by curating their profiles, and by sharing personal collections. Gift NFTs to family or friends, bid in an auction, or mint an annual access pass.
Journalists may begin a new path by finding untold stories and publishing those works for NFT collectors and readers to purchase. Web3 and blockchain will serve the longtail of local journalism as well as global news stories. Please subscribe to the Immutable Type newsletter and watch for our Call for Journalists to become an early publisher.
Links and Community
Resources:
Article: How to Fund Your Polygon Wallet
Video: Add Polygon Network to MetaMask
Video: Buy MATIC with MetaMask
Founder Twitter:
Founder LinkedIn: Damonpeters.com
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Legal and Disclaimers:
Immutable Type is a project and brand wholly owned by Stadium Gates, LLC, a Delaware entity. The following are important guidelines when using this site and its products. Immutable Type is in early beta and may experience significant failures despite all reasonable efforts, and our community members do so exclusively at their own risk.
The following are updated as of November 29, 2022.
