Farcaster

Theory: no coin, no community.

That is: in the absence of shared purpose, digital communities break down into status signaling and endless conflict. 

So, I’m thinking of opening up a prize for a service that makes it easy to create and admin token-gated subnetworks on the Farcaster protocol.

there are multiple things that could've contributed to this. the wider ecology of twitter itself has changed, maybe bc elon, maybe other things like tiktok. a bunch of us have become tired busy parents. some poasters stopped posting entirely. maybe some projects were ~completed

been talking with some of the olds about maybe trying to rekindle things somehow– maybe on here, maybe somewhere else, but i think the main thing is actually the projects. without poaster-driven projects, i think we mostly end up with lowest common denominator slop discourse

Visakan Veerasamy

Theory: no coin, no community.

That is: in the absence of shared purpose, digital communities break down into status signaling and endless conflict. 

So, I’m thinking of opening up a prize for a service that makes it easy to create and admin token-gated subnetworks on the Farcaster protocol.
https://x.com/visakanv/status/1942017363572150324?s=46

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this part of twitter (tpot) never had a coin (besides btc or eth) and yet the algo showing us each other's posts was how @visakanv and i had any amount of rapport back then (amongst many other weirdos) before musk bought bird app. visa probably doesn't remember me any more because it's been well over a year..

but i used to riff with many of the same folks daily back then. it was my favorite experience on social media short of my earliest time on warpcast before engagement slop became the focus 🐽 

with that, i actually believe a token is worse for a community that has a real purpose because it devolves into short-term greed and soulless bull posting. why would you want that? it's been tried so so many times and the movie almost always ends badly (especially if the token is an NFT)