derek
@derek
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A sneak peek:
Stabledash
@stabledash
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Anthropic subscribers spend 2-3x more per payment than OpenAI subscribers per @americanspend
“OpenAI has more accounts, but if you look at the Anthropic ATV, the average transaction that’s going on to these cards, it’s 2x to 3x the amount for OpenAI, which really tells the https://t.co/KXOd6dhJlU
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The Network Code from @ns is an implementation of some of the ideas I wrote about a couple of years ago when running @bunches, an onchain social network for sports fans.
With 250,000 users at the time, moderation was a *major* issue for us, and we were already using AI and community voting to start to solve it.
We h...
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For the record: I voted "yes", obviously.
Do I agree with the immediate policies? Not all of them, no. But I do understand why they exist.
My number one critique? I think that they should have been enforced on a go-forward basis, rather than retroactively enforced. Hard to obey rules you don't know exist.
But also t...
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To the new folks that I’m now following who are at @ns:
I’m happy each of you are here!
I, for one, am glad that Farcaster has added even more folks like you who are learners and builders and thinkers and founders looking to move our world forward.
Apologies if there are folks here who may come across as … not as we...
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This is much kinder than I would have been, and publicly calls out a few questions and points that I know others have either wondered or stated privately.
@nounishprof and @adrienne are both sane, rational voices within the community and have proven so time and time again.
We’ve been called out by Cassie for staying neutral and not taking her “side” when I personally don’t think I should be forced to choose one. I just posted the following in response to her post on X but she had also posted a few comments during our show yesterday before dramatically declaring that she was not going to
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I suspect that @balaji and @ns will try to lead the protocol from its historic state — decentralized casts on a centralized app — to a future of decentralized casts across decentralized apps.
Instead of a decentralized Twitter used by many network states, each network state will get its own Twitter altogether.
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Other apps on (and forks of) the NS protocol may act as anti-abuse systems and quarantine bad actors.
A timely read from Nikita.
Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
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Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X.
When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Instagram, it’s DEFCON 5:
You have to squeeze out every last drop of growth from all available surfaces to save the app.
However, I started https://t.co/IZroTiqcod
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