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State of the art vs state of the practice

Paramount Plaza, NYC

FC is the future

brb creating some open source nft tech. gonna fork to retrofit an old project. gonna borrow for @oeth.eth. open source and cc0 are thankless but so, so valuable.

Once upon a time, pre-FC, when I was more active on nftwitter, I started a project called [URBAN MYTHOLOGY] [V2]. It was a photographic exploration of NYC over the 4 seasons. The entire body of work is explorable via metadata incl Season, Time, Neighborhood, etc. I minted Summer, Fall, and the first set in Winter, had most of Winter edited, and all of Spring shot. It was 500+ 1/1s before I burnt out. Minting on mainnet was expensive, listing was annoying, and worst of all configuring the metadata via Manifold was a huge timesuck. I made 1+ ETH across platforms, but spent a huge portion of that on minting the tokens. To make it more engaging, I made posters and collector's editions for each season. I made a webpage explaining the project, but it was janky bc ultimately you had to go to opensea, manifold, etc to interact with the nfts. Today, after months of not using a "real" camera, barely taking photos, the itch returns. Given I now have the powers of software development, I can make my own tooling AND end experience. Urban Mythology web and mini apps coming soon. Value directed to $oETH obvi. https://opensea.io/collection/urban-mythology-v2

What's the signal/noise ratio on viral content?

Core inspo incoming https://youtu.be/tKGhxMi50y8?si=6t6QCv4K7Fz8evSA

i find vibecoding to be its own specific flavor of numbing. i'm in love with the act, but in hate with how i feel after.

My kind of design thinking https://dearhermes.com/read/kfniw9y/what-does-a-tool-owe-you

With the advent of personalized software, I get why people are excited about operating systems—I was onto the idea years ago (rip artsOS). But it is the public-facing counterpart, the domain, where we'll find new internet paradigms.

The internet used to be more customizable. Myspace is prob the pinnacle of customizable social, but others bits like away messages, forum signatures, and winamp come to mind. What does PC mean again? Web2 corposlopped our digital spheres, but we're going to hard pivot back to building our own, and blast past whatever it was we could've possibly imagined all those years ago. The vibe coders are starting to build their own universes. Everyone has the tools. Having a generic "homepage" will be low signal.

Time is typically the study of my work, particularly in my photography. I always grappled with nostalgia, knowing how poisonous it can be. Lots of firsthand exposure and tbh inspiration. As I find myself wanting to shoot again, after many many months "off", I grapple with the beast again.

Could chang Activity to All and add a Channels filter back

we do a little prototyping

What if you could vibe code your own Farcaster interface w/ neynar that'd be rad

Haven't used a (real) camera in a while and it makes me sad. Sounds like a job for vibe coding.

In this thought exercise I'm trying not to be too nostalgic: - There is gold in the memory of a time when channels were used across a variety of use cases, particularly by those who don't fall under the typical builder archetype (dev) - Truer now more than ever, I believe everyone on FC is a dev (Neynar tools gud) - Channels are "content" streams - The previous/current meta made everyone hate tokens - Tokens create incentives, power distribution, provide social signal; stigma unwarranted, cultural stigma warranted - People made and participated in communities (channels) without tokens - Collaboration is the only path to innovation, onboarding new users, and most importantly, fun - Tokens can facilitate collaboration; AI can too - The miasma is real, but to operate with the assumption that we peaked would be depressing and foolish. - Farcasters were united by a vision of crypto (and tech broadly) that was different from the hellish version that exists on twitter. - At its best, farcaster felt like a playground - Connections > money every time

There is design space at the intersection of channels + clanker + apps. Something between party and daos and dark/light forests. Build together, invest together. The culture is not one of collaboration, but it's clear to me that's the only path to the next level. There are and have been a plethora of orgs on Farcaster that could be reimagined with tokens. However, the moment you ask what the tokens "would do" is the moment things fall apart. They are, above all else, distribution and coordination (incentive) mechanisms. Forget the mcap. Forget the fees. Assume 0 financial value.