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In this world, communities exist on a continuum between those forced on us and those we opt into. Forced communities (like the town you were raised in) are beneficial in that they teach us how to interact with people we may not agree with, but they can also be stifling.
To find communities of like-minded people, we used to have to move to cities, but now the internet has allowed us access to so many more people. We can search for subreddits that interest us and meet like-minded people there. We can do something similar by following the people we like on Twitter and interacting with those the algorithm presents to us.
However, I believe there is a more straight-forward, a more intentional way to find people like us. We aren’t monolithic in our interests. Meeting people who are into aerial arts is great, but how should I go about meeting people who are into aerial arts AND crypto AND permaculture AND boogie woogie? How do I meet People Like Me?
Two things I’ve learned from my time in crypto are:
people with disparate interests like mine do actually exist, and
working on a project brings people together much quicker than chatting on Twitter does.
My proposal is actually very simple. It’s a mix between Reddit, Discord, a dating website, and DAOs.
It is to make a website where people can do two things:
create a DAO (based around a variety of interests).
Search for a DAO (based on a variety of interests).
Here are two examples for illustration.
Let’s say I am looking for a group of Ethereum fanatics in my area that are interested in throwing a party for the Merge (true story). I would go to the website, select to “Start a DAO”, and input “North Carolina,” “South Carolina,” “Ethereum,” and “parties” in the “interests” list. Then I’ll be guided as to how to start a Colony and a discord server, and I’ll decide how big of a membership fee (if any) is required to join (these fees will become the DAO treasury.) As people join, we’ll start making plans for the Merge party and moving funds appropriately. Before we know it, we are a complete and functioning DAO that is set to throw more parties as people think them up.
A more complex example would be someone who starts a DAO built around the following interests: nutrition, bartending, jaw harp music, farming, and bats. A user looking for a group to join might be interested in 4 of these things and therefore find this DAO based on their inputs on the People Like Me Website. This DAO may offer free membership but have tiered levels based on amount contributed. The members may decide to use their money to meet IRL and who knows, they may decide to buy some land in the mountains to throw craft cocktail parties in a bat cave to the thrumming sound of the jaw harp.
The People Like Me website itself would not need to be run as a DAO, but it could. It should be pretty straightforward and easy to maintain. It is simply an editable and searchable database of people’s interests and DAOs that exist. Colony could even do this. It could be a free service but charges for technical help on Colony and Discord formation, or it could sell prominent placement for certain DAOs that want to grow quickly. Or it could charge $20 to list each new DAO. The important point is that once a DAO is formed, it is no longer formally tied to People Like Me. PLM just facilitates all of this. I’ve lived my life having separate groups of friends based on the different interests I have. With the world at our fingertips, it’s time we really meet people like us and use these relationships to change that world in our own small (or large) ways.
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In this world, communities exist on a continuum between those forced on us and those we opt into. Forced communities (like the town you were raised in) are beneficial in that they teach us how to interact with people we may not agree with, but they can also be stifling.
To find communities of like-minded people, we used to have to move to cities, but now the internet has allowed us access to so many more people. We can search for subreddits that interest us and meet like-minded people there. We can do something similar by following the people we like on Twitter and interacting with those the algorithm presents to us.
However, I believe there is a more straight-forward, a more intentional way to find people like us. We aren’t monolithic in our interests. Meeting people who are into aerial arts is great, but how should I go about meeting people who are into aerial arts AND crypto AND permaculture AND boogie woogie? How do I meet People Like Me?
Two things I’ve learned from my time in crypto are:
people with disparate interests like mine do actually exist, and
working on a project brings people together much quicker than chatting on Twitter does.
My proposal is actually very simple. It’s a mix between Reddit, Discord, a dating website, and DAOs.
It is to make a website where people can do two things:
create a DAO (based around a variety of interests).
Search for a DAO (based on a variety of interests).
Here are two examples for illustration.
Let’s say I am looking for a group of Ethereum fanatics in my area that are interested in throwing a party for the Merge (true story). I would go to the website, select to “Start a DAO”, and input “North Carolina,” “South Carolina,” “Ethereum,” and “parties” in the “interests” list. Then I’ll be guided as to how to start a Colony and a discord server, and I’ll decide how big of a membership fee (if any) is required to join (these fees will become the DAO treasury.) As people join, we’ll start making plans for the Merge party and moving funds appropriately. Before we know it, we are a complete and functioning DAO that is set to throw more parties as people think them up.
A more complex example would be someone who starts a DAO built around the following interests: nutrition, bartending, jaw harp music, farming, and bats. A user looking for a group to join might be interested in 4 of these things and therefore find this DAO based on their inputs on the People Like Me Website. This DAO may offer free membership but have tiered levels based on amount contributed. The members may decide to use their money to meet IRL and who knows, they may decide to buy some land in the mountains to throw craft cocktail parties in a bat cave to the thrumming sound of the jaw harp.
The People Like Me website itself would not need to be run as a DAO, but it could. It should be pretty straightforward and easy to maintain. It is simply an editable and searchable database of people’s interests and DAOs that exist. Colony could even do this. It could be a free service but charges for technical help on Colony and Discord formation, or it could sell prominent placement for certain DAOs that want to grow quickly. Or it could charge $20 to list each new DAO. The important point is that once a DAO is formed, it is no longer formally tied to People Like Me. PLM just facilitates all of this. I’ve lived my life having separate groups of friends based on the different interests I have. With the world at our fingertips, it’s time we really meet people like us and use these relationships to change that world in our own small (or large) ways.
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