derek (derek)

derek

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A sneak peek: https://x.com/stabledash/status/2115189336597545023?s=46

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In light of today’s ETH breakthrough. Just reposting receipts for the inevitable discovery.

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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 had some really interesting designs/plans, but timing worked against us, but I still think the ideas were super intriguing. Excited to see how @balajis.eth and team solve similar issues here. One advantage the NS Protocol team has? Believe it or not, the typical user here is much more ... sane ... than the average sports fan. Read more: https://www.derekbrown.xyz/decentralizing-moderation/

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I think I might have an outlier Bad Bunny take? I didn’t mind him doing the halftime show. I think he’s just as much an American as I am*, speak enough Spanish to be conversational, love the culture, and generally enjoy his music. The production quality was great. But I just found it fairly mid. Not bad. Not great.

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Join @yura's Surge and earn USDC by amplifying others!

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My two cents on complaints about Warpcast being the dominant client for a decentralized protocol: Bet that most of the complainers use Coinbase. Or Uniswap. In a decentralized world, the winning clients are first among equals, as voted on by users. If you don't like Warpcast being the A+ client, build a better one.

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In my opinion, a lot of folks need to change their mental model around Farcaster. Farcaster is the most successful subreddit of all time. Builder-oriented, early adopters and early capital as value props, etc. If you think of Farcaster as the next YouTube or X or Instagram, you’re going to be wildly disappointed and perennially cynical. If you think of Farcaster as the best community of people building and experimenting onchain while sharing ideas of what the future looks like, you’re gonna have a great time. I have a great time.

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