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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alternative theory: all communities break down this way as they grow. a coin can help but only for a specific type of community

strong leadership helps much more than a coin, but TPOT (@visakanv's community) didn't have that -- mostly on purpose

perhaps a coin + an agent could replace strong leadership