Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
If you’re looking for network effects without broadcasting value beyond the network, you’re mistaking internal motion for external momentum. The value proposition is conservative because it reduces culture to ownership, value to price, and participation to purchasing, and lets be honest there’not that many of you as differentiated consumers. Just replicating existing systems, with different aesthetics and worse UX but not with the creative risk needed to attract culture will not work. You can’t bootstrap a new medium with late-stage media assumptions. “We’ll tell you what to like.” You’re starting from zero. You don’t own the pipes. You don’t even own the audience. You have to earn every moment of attention.
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
A lot of conservative people think Hollywood studio heads are ideologically left-wing. But the truth is they’re not even especially progressive. They’re just ruthlessly good at capturing attention. They’ll greenlight shows they personally dislike, fund creators who challenge their values, and bet on narratives that make them uncomfortable—if they think it’ll get views, go viral, or generate cultural momentum. That’s not political conviction; that’s media savvy. Crypto, by contrast, often refuses to fund anything that doesn’t align with its own narrow ideological comfort zone doubling down on aesthetics and narratives that only resonate internally—NFT drops, libertarian themes, recycled in-group memes. So if you’re building a crypto social network and refusing to back culture that might actually connect outside your bubble, you’re not failing because the world doesn’t get it. You’re failing because you don’t want to meet the world halfway.
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frdysk
@frdysk
what if by refusing to meet the world halfway is a deliberate decision to steer the audience to a morally better pathway?
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