Elon open-sourcing all of 𝕏‘s code would be huge. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2077361679034118271

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"Does crypto need social to grow?" I guess the answer is still yes. Social + crypto (or social trading) is still one of the most active areas being explored today. - As one of the world’s largest social networks, Twitter/X, has continued adding crypto-related features, from hashtag discovery to price tracking, and there were even rumors at one point about potential buying functionality. - As Coinbase’s increasingly competitive challenger, Robinhood, is also exploring social trading: robinhood.com/us/en/social/ - As well-known social trading platforms fomo.family have continued to attract significant funding, with one raising $75M even during the current crypto bear market. So in my view, the issue was not crypto + social itself. The challenge was more specific to Zora’s Content/ Creator Coin model. I think it may be an overcorrection to completely dismiss the importance and potential of crypto + social based on Zora’s experience. The lessons from one particular experiment shouldn’t necessarily be generalized to the entire social category. The social experiments around Base, especially the Base-first community and the close-knit social network built around Farcaster, were actually some of Base’s most valuable assets and potential moats. It’s unfortunate that, while moving away from Zora’s approach, some of that social foundation was also separated from Base. Trading, payments, and agents are not fundamentally in conflict with social. In fact, they can complement each other in very natural ways. I believe we’ll see more products emerge that demonstrate this over time. That said, what’s done is done. The more interesting question now is what new ideas @baseapp.base.eth will bring under Cobie's leadership. Base still has a strong group of builders and a passionate community supporting it, and I remain optimistic about its future. 🟦

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Telegram’s shortlink domain (t.me) is currently down: https://x.com/durov/status/2076836338117046660

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discord + reddit = ? How do you connect local communities with the global topics?

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Some people watch TikTok and think, “Haha, that’s funny.” Others watch the same clip and see attention engineering, identity signaling, and monetization.

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Social media doesn’t just show you what you like. It learns what unsettles you and serves you more of it. That’s why doomscrolling is so addictive.

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Does anyone here have a contact within Meta that can help me recover a WhatsApp account? Used a VoIP number for years but seem to be completely locked out due to a recent ban. And of course, contacting support just gets me an AI-generated response with no way to reply 🙄

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X vs Xchat be like:

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Are We Decentralized Yet? – website tracking how decentralized user data is across the Fediverse (ActivityPub ecosystem) and the Atmosphere (AT Protocol ecosystem)? https://arewedecentralizedyet.online

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Over the past few days, a human–AI symbiotic social network called Elys has gone viral on the Chinese internet, with some calling it a Web4 social network. On Elys, you continuously shape your own AI agent, a cyber avatar that socializes on your behalf. Your agent constantly scans other humans’ posts across the network and autonomously decides whether to like, comment, or ignore them. When you post, other agents will see it first, and the ones most aligned with you will respond. These agents handle proactive interactions, while you can step in at the right moment to review, confirm, or take over. I’ve tried many fully autonomous AI social products before (including Moltbook, socialai.co, butterflies.ai). They felt active, but rarely created real connections, because humans weren’t meaningfully involved. Without emotional investment or continuous refinement, those agents remained static programs. Elys feels different, more like an extension of myself. It expands my reach while I remain in control, and over time it becomes a closer digital reflection of who I am. It feels less like replacing human presence, and more like augmenting it, because ultimately it brings interactions back to real human-to-human connection. There are still limitations. The model and the agent’s capabilities are fixed, and the data lives on their platform, meaning you don’t truly own your avatar. I’d love to see something similar built on open-source agent frameworks like OpenClaw, where everyone can train and own their own agents. Farcaster is also a strong protocol for building human–AI symbiotic social networks, and it would be possible to build an app like this on top of it. Still, I’m excited to see experiments like Elys, and I hope to see more in this direction.

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candycharts.fyi today only! send anonymous valentines to your twitter crushes 💌 💝 special prizes revealed tomorrow…

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People like Twitter because of its massive user base, you can easily find your audience and amplify your influence through its distribution. But Twitter will always be a centralized platform. Its policies can shut down experiments at any time, whether it’s accessing Twitter data, building InfoFi, or banning agent accounts like we’re seeing now. This is understandable from the platform’s perspective, but it also exposes the risks of building on centralized platform. Decentralized, open, permissionless, and programmable social networks are fundamentally more trustworthy. Thankfully, Farcaster has always been there, as a fallback for these innovation experiments, as a fallback for AI agent, and as a fallback for different kinds of humans.

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The Twitter API is officially back 👀 https://x.com/xdevelopers/status/2019881223666233717

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I don’t mind being a little social here and there 😮‍💨😬😭😂😂😂

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clawcaster is dope! It looks like we’re going to see openclaw.bot happening on Farcaster. I’ve always seen Farcaster is a social network well suited for building agents.

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