Parallel Citizen (parallelcitizen)

Decentralized Social Media: 15 Years in the Making A practical map for creators and builders. History, protocols, what failed, what works now. Includes Farcaster Frames, Lens apps, Cyber, Bluesky, Base App, and Zora creator coins. Alongside this free post, I'm also releasing a guide! Decentralized Social Media 101: A Creator Flywheel https://parallelcitizen.gumroad.com/l/deso-101 cc: @dwr @v @vitalik.eth @zora and builders and readers in: /dev /zk /paragraph /networksocieties /network-states /zora

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Religion. Nationalism. Tribalism. The "Network State" isn't a new idea. It's the return of the community as the ultimate check on power. Read the full history of the Architecture of Authority and how to wrestle with it in the era of decentralization. https://paragraph.com/@parallelcitizen/god-state-network /networksocieties /network-states /paragraph

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I just launched a writer coin on Paragraph! Its also now paired with my Zora Creator coin :)

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Sharing my highlights from visiting NS Conference and Network School https://paragraph.com/@parallelcitizen/ns-2025-highlights /network-states /nsl /networksocieties /paragraph

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Democracy as forecasting. Nepal’s Gen Z routed around shutdowns, Belarus shows the repression baseline, Estonia keeps iterating e-gov, Albania teases an AI “minister.” What flexes, what breaks, what’s next. https://paragraph.com/@parallelcitizen/dddddd /networksocieties /paragraph /network-states /worldnews /geopolitics /ai

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Chokepoints of the ‘Decentralized’ Web /network-states /paragraph

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Updates on Network State Experiments (mid-2025)

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