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

this is a thesis i strongly believe in. 
we actually have the legos for communities to gain sovereignty over their algo and money layer. just need more experimentation and un-learning about how to use tokens in/for these communities. can't keep playing up-only speculative games. 

'community building' in crypto mostly gets reduced to virtue signaling and short term growth hacks. 

we need to shift attention towards how to make people with shared values stay and grow. and this is what we're iterating on with @cura 
→ plug and play tools/algos to curate content within communities
→ incentive system that rewards actual contributors
→ rituals that drive retention

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