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Stephan
@stephancill
So many lessons for social networks in this video. Two key takeaways: Preferential attachment can help us understand how to avoid erosion of client diversity and build censorship resistant systems Participants (including platforms themselves) in social networks face a prisoner’s dilemma where the difference between everyone cooperating and defecting is basically up to the network configuration and once one “wins” there’s no going back. I think this is what we’ve seen happen if you consider defecting to be the adoption of the algo feeds we have today https://youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA
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Garrett
@garrett
how would you apply these takeaways to farcaster?
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Stephan
@stephancill
will think of direct applications but on a higher level i think stuff like this is critical to be aware of when you're designing a social protocol. if you're not acutely aware of how people choose clients and what the risks are against client diversity you're fighting a losing battle if decentralization is your goal. i think on a participant level farcaster did well with the prisoner's dilemma by seeding the network with high quality users in the beginning and getting them to stick around and set the tone for new users. i say that because the non-toxic culture on here has largely stayed in tact despite modest growth – something that could have easily devolved into chaos like all the other platforms had the wrong crowd been selected in the beginning
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