Network States

Come to Singapore on October 3.
ns.com/conference2025

I will be there.

We'll host @ipecity meetups and will premiere the second episode of The Network Society documentary.

If you have the possibility to go in person I couldn't recommend enough. 

This event is an extremely optimistic portal to the future. It's a call for builders to create a new society.

We are a community of techno-optimists building social technologies for Internet-native cities. Join us at Ipê Village from Apr 22nd to May 22nd.

Is Farcarster becoming more Instagram than X?

Zuzalu

Hey zuzalu!

I'd love to share The Network Society documentary series with you.
It was filmed in Prospera, during Vitalia, and features Balaji, Patri, and many others.

The first episode is available on X and Youtube. Both lins here.

https://x.com/peerbase_/status/1851944534139375920

building a proof of collective action on top of Farcaster, Ipê City and Base. 👀

Author of the Network State.
Founder of the Network School.
Work with us at jobs.ns.com.

That's true. There are countless ways to leverage Farcaster's social graph to improve the governance of communities and cities.

We just launched the Network School Fellowship.
Anyone from anywhere can apply for $100k in funding.
Apply online at ns.com.

Anyone.
Anywhere.
$100k in funding.
Global meritocracy is finally here. https://t.co/zt9VQ5B3oe

Balaji

We just launched the Network School Fellowship.
Anyone from anywhere can apply for $100k in funding.
Apply online at ns.com.
https://x.com/balajis/status/1913280710531826057

Most countries are small countries.
More than 50% have <10M people.
Almost 20% have <1M people.
We've built social networks much bigger than that.

teddit

honest personal take (disclaimer: i'm not an ML expert, i just study and use a lot of social apps):

i think its highly unimaginative and tired to tell new users on a social platform to "reply a lot" in order to get any engagement.

social platforms, for a long time, pinned discovery as a user problem. tiktok changed that. they didn't expect users to earn attention the hard way (hustling to self-promote and get follows).

instead tiktok took on discovery as a platform problem and decoupled distribution from follower count entirely: a content-first, graph-agnostic approach.

on tiktok, a user's responsibility is to make good content and the algo would do the rest based micro interactions and watch behavior. YouTube took a similar approach, but favored creators who mastered their (effort intensive) rules: SEO knowledge, thumbnails, content cadence, etc.

if we're hearing that discovery is a problem, the question should be: whose problem — the user's or the platform's?

take long-form text platform substack: the recommender engine places more of the burden on the platform than the user, and the platform bias is towards quality via a trust graph.

it recommends newsletters based on what you read, introduces editorial curation, and the "recommended by other writers" feature means that small / new writers can get regularly recommended to audiences that a specific writer's taste.

each platform makes a design choice about who should work to be seen. on substack, they believe that good writers should be lifted through network effects and curation.

does this scale easily? no, it scales slowly but is compounding.

so why is this so hard for short-form text-based platforms like twitter, threads, bluesky, or farcaster?

because short-form text is typically low-signal, high-noise. short posts on their own carry very little context or signal. it's easier to produce, but harder to evaluate. as a result, discovery for short-form text platform has relied heavily on follower graphs. 

twitter initially solved this with hashtags (then failed to do it at scale with lists, fleets, and circle). substack partially solved this with its writer graph (trust graph) and categories (topic / semantic clustering).

and i think farcaster's open data, mini apps, and interoperability (zkTLS) can be leveraged for creative solutions here that aren't possible on other platforms. that excites me.

Is this the user’s fault or the platform’s fault?

Excellent question by @ted. Should be asked in many situations, not just this one. Because sometimes it’s user error, sometimes it’s platform error, and sometimes it’s both.

building farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud” 🤠

Next on Commons: @peerbase, founder of Ipêcity, joins to discuss how ENS, yodlpay, and more power a civic tech stack that lays the foundation for a startup society.

We won’t pontificate—we’ll show how it works via onchain governance, identity, and consent.

Founder Peerbase.
Producing the docuseries about network states and startup societies https://startupsociety.film.

🌏Ipê Village Floripa – Brazil's longest and most epic governance innovation event is coming!

It's a one-month pop-up village where global builders will colive and prototype solutions for governance, health, education, and finance using AI and blockchain.

Our goal is to turn bureaucracy into code and startups.

It’s time to reimagine governance for the Internet era.

Join us as Ipê Explorer to learn and connect, or Ipê Architect to build.

🔗 Sign up at ipe.city

Who is coming to Ipê Village Floripa, Brazil's first pop-up city next year?

Learn more about it: https://docs.ipe.city

The idea of pop-up cities emerged after @VitalikButerin read The Network State book and wondered what an MVP of a new city would look like.

Inspired by @balajis' "Cloud Formation" concept, in Q1 2023, he organized Zuzalu, a 2-month coliving experience in Montenegro for 200… https://t.co/e1U5aDBXJS

Jean Hansen

https://x.com/peerbase_/status/1860719430982066470?t=AHMYA2zABtKtTZqQ8mlajQ&s=19

Founders

Prospera is trying to replicate the concept of Shenzen, Dubai, and Hong Hong here in the West.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to generate progress even in the most underdeveloped countries.

Watch the full documentary in the link below. https://t.co/gDYXC4tXzW

https://x.com/peerbase_/status/1859240298045415901?t=xVimGzxGxyjDd9Xtjx-JuA&s=19

Would you live in a city built and managed by a startup?

Those are part of the startup societies ecosystem, explained here by @balajis. https://t.co/8jFVoFfas5

https://x.com/peerbase_/status/1857034863536123993

Founder mode building network states!

https://x.com/peerbase_/status/1857034863536123993

Farcaster

Hey zuzalu!

I'd love to share The Network Society documentary series with you.
It was filmed in Prospera, during Vitalia, and features Balaji, Patri, and many others.

The first episode is available on X and Youtube. Both lins here.

🎥 The first episode of The Network Society documentary is out!

Join me on a global journey to explore the pioneers building new cities and reshaping the concept of governance for the Internet era.

Watch it now on X and YouTube. https://t.co/ojGjT0eVrF

Hey Vitalik! Have watched The Network Society documentary? It was filmed in Prospera, during Vitalia, and features Balaji, Patri, and many others.

I'd love to have your thought on it.

Hey Vitalik! Have watched The Network Society documentary? It was filmed in Prospera, during Vitalia, and features Balaji, Patri, and many others.

I'd love to have your thought on it.

https://x.com/peerbase_/status/1851944534139375920

Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8KhnY7Uk2es?si=nbLmopdacwaO78It