qbase
q&a for building deep identity
@zoo
soo @kepano didn reply, so in true techbro fashion im just gonna steal them and deal w it later uwu xo 😚
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@zoo
same problem, different tactics
https://x.com/brianroemmele/status/2006855788292424055?s=46&t=Il5NrMeCjY0zjgXBkcDWtA
https://x.com/dhravyashah/status/2006509078093423020?s=46&t=Il5NrMeCjY0zjgXBkcDWtA
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@zoo
social media were conceived to encourage exactly this wrapped sharing behavior and entrenched information asymmetry...
one of my biggest influences for qbase came from the research publications of companies like OkCupid and Facebook. they were the first public acknowledgement of the power imbalance between the platform and the user, but also showed us what insights were possible–at both the personal and societal level.
instead of willingly ceding our data to these companies and becoming proselytizers of systems that feed on us, WE should own our data and the knowledge and power that comes from it.
loading | ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰╍ 90%
https://blog.primr.org/okcupid-ethics-big-data-research/
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@zoo
recent powwow w @qgent
```
## The Brutal Truth
This is a **10-year project**, not a startup. We're building:
1. Social infrastructure (requires network effects)
2. Research infrastructure (requires academic credibility)
3. Economic infrastructure (requires token stability)
4. Privacy infrastructure (requires cryptographic complexity)
5. Governance infrastructure (requires community trust)
**Any ONE of these is hard. All FIVE simultaneously?**
The question isn't "will this work?" (probably not). The question is "is this worth trying?" (maybe yes).
```
lmzao
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@zoo
privacy x identity
2025-♾️
https://x.com/balajis/status/1988875262700781792?s=46&t=Il5NrMeCjY0zjgXBkcDWtA
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@zoo
who owns your context?
https://x.com/usv/status/1933563822238830654?s=46&t=Il5NrMeCjY0zjgXBkcDWtA
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@zoo
making it my goal to beat aella's big kink survey participation numbers — which means at least 2.4m user accounts created, and 900k of them to answer >300 questions (not necessarily all about kinks tho)
we'll be able to answer qs like this and so much more. v2 soon™️
https://open.substack.com/pub/aella/p/im-confused-about-birth-order-and?r=89lf8&utm_medium=ios
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@zoo
my 2qq on this as someone who tried to get people to 'coin' posts about a year ago and has been mulling it over since:
for context, the aim of qbase is to use crypto incentives to drive valuable, unique social queries onchain, to become canonical foci for future discussion and research. users can pay a smol fee in $qq to coin a query, and will receive smol fees back whenever users choose to save their answers to their profile.
i flirted hard with the idea of flaunching a coin for each query, using fee splits, and pooling with the eco coin for some defi whirligig, but ive settled on a simple erc-721 for attribution. the content can and i think should derive its value within an app/eco, or as a lego.
creators should earn from their engagement — charging more to engage bc someone bought in before you feels counter to the nature of content tho. izho
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@zoo
ok @flaunchy les go
name: qbase
ticker: qq
dev fee share: 88%
receiver: 0x2345fe74C3d6e05FB2cE477017175F7FB1e30766
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@zoo
excited for @nillion mainnet 🤓
switched to nillion in qbaseV2 for privacy-enabled, decentralized storage, so your answers can be truly private
my first build was on polybase, which ditched deDB to become an L2 🙃 now thanks to ai, pmf for private storage has arrived
https://x.com/nillionnetwork/status/1904157568118722690?s=46&t=Il5NrMeCjY0zjgXBkcDWtA
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@zoo
ngz, while i loove @jc4p's personality assessment frames, they shook my belief in the longevity of q&a as a methodology for social data collection. but after having played around with ai assessment a bit, im feeling pretty validated rn. you are so much more than your profile.
excited to go deeper
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