Important read. People want to be in "the arena" more than they want to own their digital identity.
While some things on X have gotten worse since Elon took over (e.g. racism/race baiting content), it's become much more important as the town square to talk about AI (& use AI via Grok). If they do care about "ownership", I imagine they see personal websites & Substacks as a way to have ownership and X is just a newswire. Substack is also quickly turning into a platform, but that's a separate issue.
However I still can't get over the fact that if we were building social media from scratch we would still follow @mmasnick's Protocols not Platforms. Yes, X is the best place to put out corposlop PR to your fellow PMC denizens, but what about everything else outside the mainstream?
https://daringfireball.net/2026/10/x_once_again_marks_the_spot
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So, Meta's Muse can't use Tailscale, but Grok Bot can? Seems like a big oversight
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Finally got to see Cathie Wood IRL @ SF Tech Week! Alongside Dierdre Bosa, Andre Iguodala, and Sarah Pinto from Robinhood.
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A Credo for the Decentralized Network:
I believe in Self-Sovereign Identity, keeper of my own keys,
author of my own name.
I believe in the Protocol, not the platform —
that no company owns my voice,
and no server holds my history hostage.
I believe in the Portable Social Graph,
that my followers are mine to carry,
from client to client, app to app,
world without lock-in.
I believe in Farcaster,
its state replicated, its history verifiable,
open to any who would run a node and check.
I believe in Rough Consensus and Running Code,
the old cypherpunk law,
that no committee ratifies the truth —
the network does, block by block, cast by cast.
I believe in Many Clients, One Network —
Warpcast and its kin,
each a window, none a gatekeeper.
I believe in Frames,
that a cast may become an app,
and an app may live inside a cast.
I believe in On-Chain Roots,
identity anchored to Ethereum,
signatures that cannot be forged,
custody that cannot be revoked by decree.
I believe in Ethereum, the world computer,
settlement layer of last resort,
and I believe the ticker is ETH.
I believe in Gas as a kind of prayer,
paid in earnest, denominated in gwei.
I believe in L2s as a chorus of voices,
each singing in a different key,
but rolled up, in the end, to one truth.
I believe the mempool sees all,
and still I do not despair.
I believe sufficient decentralization is a direction, not a destination —
that consolidation is a warning, not a verdict,
and the protocol is only as free as the number of hands that can run it.
I believe in the Right to Exit,
that I may take my graph and go,
and the network will not weep, for it was built to let me leave.
I believe in Open Moderation,
that no single hand may silence,
though many hands may choose not to listen.
I believe in the permanence of what is signed,
and the impermanence of any single host, any single operator, any single company.
I believe the protocol will outlast the platform.
Amen.
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I turned 32 yesterday, this is a significant milestone in the simulation we call 'life' since I will henceforth need 5 (!!!) whole bits to encode my age. In the future, I hope to mitigate the disaster of needing a 6th bit by using the only scientifically guaranteed way to mitigate the effects of aging:
moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light in the Earth's inertial reference frame.