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It looks like @masknetwork is acquiring /lens. it feels like a move toward consolidating resources and focusing on building better products. I’ve talked about this many times before. It’s honestly a shame that so many big Lens clients have shut down one by one. @phaverapp, Hey.xyz, @buttrfly... and now only orb.club remains, plus @fireflyapp as an aggregator. Whether it was launching a token, memberships, or experimenting with other monetization models, none of these attempts really proved sustainable in the long run. Part of the reason is that Lens’s user base was simply too small. another is that the ecosystem was extremely fragmented. Different clients didn’t interoperate well, features weren’t shared, and users ended up scattered across apps, which only made each individual client weaker. That’s why I think Farcaster’s Product-led protocol development makes a lot of sense. If Mask becomes the new "steward" of Lens, there may finally be an opportunity to consolidate resources across the ecosystem and truly double down on making Orb and Firefly even better products. And, perhaps most importantly, there’s little reason to doubt Mask’s commitment to the ideals of decentralization. Maybe one day we’ll see Farcaster gain a new "steward" as well. There are already some rumors along those lines. If that happens, I wouldn’t be surprised, and I’d be inclined to believe it would be for the same reason: concentrating resources to build better products, attract more users, and ultimately help the protocol grow stronger as a whole. DeSoc can only go mainstream once there are great products that people genuinely use.

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