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Ah, I get it now, the trending feed on Farcaster didn’t disappear, it just took on a new form. 

Attention is now monetized, and mindshare is measured by value. Content can be bid on as a collectible, tipped via Noice, or traded on Zora. These are more native expressions of a trending feed in crypto social media.

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Doesn’t it feel like if you financialize everything social, it loses what it originally was?

I don’t know yet if it’s good or bad, but it def doesn’t feel the same at all.

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First, what exactly is the “original form”? And was that original form necessarily the right one? 

Traditional content trending could also be influenced by bots’ likes, or great content that deserved more exposure might go completely unnoticed.

I think using engagement and market trading to determine what’s trending isn’t necessarily better or worse, it’s just a different kind of exploration.

So true. Financialisation, or letting the market decide, is just new. And a lot more alien than bots today. But it’s as fair a metric, if not more, of cultural relevance.