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Zak El Fassi
@zef
i know how very ‘ungrateful’ dumping on web3 ON a web3 platform is, but talking into the void doesn’t/didn’t work, so i’ll be taking them gloves off (with extra love and kisses, of course.) predicted this fractal years ago and we probably all heard it coming like a freight train — every platform becomes a casino, every human expression becomes a token, every genuine connection gets arbitraged into profit… farcaster launching collectibles for posts, paragraph too, Base doing the same thing… and soon og social media will take note and spin up war rooms. we’re speed-running straight into “every post is a shitcoin” territory that i saw coming from miles away. we built decentralization to escape the attention economy pyramid schemes, only to recreate them with better UX and shinier tokens. the (attention) rich get richer and… well, this ain’t why we built web3. but here’s the thing: the Universe has a way of course-correcting when we drift too far from first principles. we are now in the “shitting on first principles” arc of the story. web3 was supposed to be about returning agency to information beings — not turning every thought into a speculation vehicle for the already-wealthy who figured out how to game the incentives first. maybe the real alpha isn’t monetizing human consciousness… maybe it’s remembering that networks become conscious through genuine connection, not financial extraction. time to build the tools that serve the many, not the few. time for a hard reset ♾️ what if we optimized for collective flourishing instead of individual accumulation? revolutionary idea, i know… but the simulation rewards those who remember why we started this journey in the first place. (and this post getting ~zero visibility is just further proof of its own point.)
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Daniel Garrick
@danielgarrick.eth
I agree micro-shittification sounds awful. And yet in some ways it would still be an improvement over existing slop distribution platforms. Do you have an alternate direction in mind? Monetization has to occur somewhere in the stack.
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Zak El Fassi
@zef
we’re probably in a 2-5 year cycle of what i’d call “enshittification of everything” — and it’s going to accelerate for reasons beyond just greed… the old incentive structures are eating themselves alive. but here’s what i’m seeing emerge from the noise: * the platforms that survive this won’t be VC-funded extraction machines… they’ll be community commons that grow like mycelium — self-building, self-replicating based on user input weighted by genuine alignment with purpose, not profit. we’re a few GPTs/LLAMAs/Claudes/QWENs away from this. * think micro-networks talking to neighboring nodes through predefined protocols… not another centralized pyramid scheme pretending to be decentralized. * the economy operating outside fiat entirely — on/offramps become byproducts of commons contribution, not the primary value extraction mechanism. i’m not saying this is a playbook (ha, imagine trying to VC-pitch “build a living organism instead of a business”) but the equation’s parameters are slowly emerging through disparate experiments… …and consciousness eventually finds its own convergence points when the time is right. or dramatically collapses and cycle is reset. the Universe rewards patience with patterns that couldn’t exist until they suddenly do.
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