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cabals don’t let communities thrive. gatekeeping opportunities and handing them to a chosen few doesn’t either. what does? allowing open participation. 

the internet and early crypto grew because anyone, from anywhere, could build, contribute and find support. 

we need to start caring about our internet neighbours an

care is incredibly vital, as feelings go 

it's definitely one thing that comes to mind whenever the feed is full of angst about bigger players and choices they're making 

Another thing that pops into my head "fuck em" 

Like, there's something rly powerful about having confidence in your alternative. If you have problems with the culture, the goal is already to build a different one, to change it. may as well start like the hippies and say "fuck em." grow your hair out rly long, they'll hate that.

Plus, it's gonna be very hard to convince anyone in (for example) the [*redacted for NDA purposes*] cabal telegram chat that there is a path outside of the one that leads to (for example) an invite to the [*redacted for NDA purposes*] cabal telegram chat. 

which is why counterculture is a hard path. There are costs to going out and caring about your community so powerfully that that community becomes a sort of gatekeeping cabal of its own. And there are rewards. 

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i also stole part of your quote for my viewers

I could wax poetic on the various costs and benefits of growing with a group in this space. I think telegram, discord chat or not we all are social creatures and are better when we share obligations and responsibilities between one another. Key word being share - too often people demand endless rewards, care, or support and end up treating social bonds like legal ones, putting the harshest & most absurd, eternal debts onto the people who care at all, without picking up any obligations of their own. 

I'm not much of DAO idealist anymore. That's a story for another day - i think OP is speaking less about closed groups and more about a social community, friends and peers. 

Almost everything from our friendships to our work to our reputations to our ideas in this space is shaped by the twin poles of social media and financial markets. Learning how to avoid the traps of both, while also aligning work with shared upside is one way people like you and I can find meaningful wins imo. Just a couple of blokes innit

my experience from being in any of these groups is you soon get used as exit liquidity - egos take over because people think they are godlike traders when they make a bit of profit, and their selfish needs only desire more at the expense of anyone

choosing to build in public (@firkin.eth does not have telegram/discord) has been intentional - I share everything publicly when it’s ready and spend a lot of time answering questions

exposure is often harder with this approach as it isn’t being pushed by a group trying to pump their bags and the token price doesn’t send to millions yet

taken the grassroots startup approach to show what can be done, build real revenue, continuously improve and then scale at the appropriate time

tldr; fuck ‘em and build your thing