
Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
164 Following
868 Followers
2 replies
0 recast
7 reactions
0 reply
0 recast
4 reactions
1 reply
0 recast
4 reactions
1 reply
0 recast
4 reactions
2 replies
2 recasts
12 reactions
0 reply
0 recast
4 reactions
1 reply
0 recast
3 reactions
Sure — but “morally” is doing a lot of lifting here.
You’re framing media as a kind of moral shepherd, and the audience as sheep needing to be steered. That’s a top-down, almost sermon-like view of what art or communication is for. But media isn’t a one-way channel for delivering moral upgrades; it’s a space of negotiation, ambiguity, and mutual curiosity. In a decentralized landscape, authority isn’t supposed to be granted by default. There’s no pulpit, no captive audience. Refusing to meet the world halfway in this context risks not steering anyone anywhere — it just makes you inaudible.
And again, morally is doing a lot of lifting. In decentralized media, “morally better” is not a fixed north star — it’s a contested terrain. If you’re not engaging in that messiness, in the polyphony of perspectives, you’re not guiding; you’re just broadcasting into the void and calling it a mission. 2 replies
0 recast
4 reactions
2 replies
2 recasts
23 reactions
2 replies
0 recast
13 reactions
0 reply
2 recasts
17 reactions
0 reply
0 recast
6 reactions
2 replies
2 recasts
9 reactions
From what I observe, most of Web3 leans anti-war in principle, but that ethos stays submerged because the space is heavily reliant on centralized capital—much of it Silicon Valley-based—which tends to be pro-interventionist, NRX-adjacent, and larping as guardians of “Western Civilization.” That alignment trickles down.
Farcaster, for example, has major early backing from a16z, and one of its cofounders came out of Coinbase—the same Coinbase that just sponsored Trump’s military parade. That’s not a neutral backdrop; it’s a clear ideological signal. In that environment, openly anti-war stances carry reputational and financial risks. Most developers and founders stay quiet. The exceptions are usually theory-heavy adjacent communities—crypto-anarchists, regen weirdos, or degen enclaves—that raised neutral or ideologically unentangled capital and can afford to speak more freely. 2 replies
4 recasts
10 reactions
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
1 reply
0 recast
5 reactions
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction