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Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this commissioned essay, Rue Yi and Ruby Justice Thelot explore the nature and consequence of our diverging online spaces. Rue talks into their screen in a room in Toronto. They keep a green hardback journal with them in case any good ideas want to make themselves known in the shape of daydreams. Ruby is a designer, cyberethnographer and artist. He is the founder of 13101401 Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Design a...
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Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this newly-commissioned essay, Kei Kreutler reflects on standardization and technological interoperability through the metaphor of the fictional spaceport. Kei’s work explores how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build.No one knows how to repair a spaceport. This is because spaceports primarily exist as a fiction. Spaceports imply the existence of inter-Solar System, if not intergalactic...
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FolkloreThe Balkanization & Babelification of the Internet
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this commissioned essay, Rue Yi and Ruby Justice Thelot explore the nature and consequence of our diverging online spaces. Rue talks into their screen in a room in Toronto. They keep a green hardback journal with them in case any good ideas want to make themselves known in the shape of daydreams. Ruby is a designer, cyberethnographer and artist. He is the founder of 13101401 Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Design a...
FolkloreThe $DEGEN Archives
Folklore has a mission to explore and understand our evolving digital worlds. Today, we’re happy to dive into the $DEGEN memecoin – a crypto-native fungible digital asset, tied to a social media meme – that emerged within the most recent break-out web 3 consumer social protocol called Farcaster. Before diving in, a note of gratitude to Bountycaster, for enabling us to find the right person to document $DEGEN. Tips and earnings from this post will be split among those that submitted essays for...
FolkloreHow to Repair a Spaceport: A metaphor for our technological present
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this newly-commissioned essay, Kei Kreutler reflects on standardization and technological interoperability through the metaphor of the fictional spaceport. Kei’s work explores how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build.No one knows how to repair a spaceport. This is because spaceports primarily exist as a fiction. Spaceports imply the existence of inter-Solar System, if not intergalactic...
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“What’s culturally relevant is valuable to own”
Finn, Folklore Member
Welcome back! It’s been a long few months and we continue to read and discuss together about online culture, communities, and how they are influencing our lives.
As of today, we’ve curated 200 pieces of content. The running list is available here in a google spreadsheet
If you are a Season 1 Member:
Collect a Genesis member badge
Curate with us at OnPulse
A reminder that our linktree has all our community links.
Join us at ETHDenver for Breakfast on March 5th
You can get a token to join the event here (free for members)
This week we will publish our first essay by our own community member Finn. Funds from the Writing NFTs will be split between Finn and the Folklore Community Treasury
I’m working on a new project called “LOCAL” helping bridge physical makers to the emerging on-chain economy. Learn more here.
Overall, a note of gratitude to everyone helping build the Folklore space. If you feel lost or confused, read first about decentralised media networks and then about Folklore’s participation process.
We’ve spent 6 months exploring our current technology. We invite you to purchase a mid-season membership if you’d like to join our journey. The price includes the rest of Season 1, likely until the summer, and Season 2.
https://zora.co/collections/0x30fbfb1416803b3e46d82811ce7aea0a21af12ce
Our community has curated over 200 pieces of content over the past 6 months. And in the Forum, we’ve had the opportunity to learn together. Here are a few choice quotes from our dialogue.
If a quote is yours, message @rafathebuilder on Telegram to claim a special badge.
labyrinths never go anywhere. the labyrinth is always exactly where it is and how it is, and there's only one entry and it's also the exit. no matter where you go in a labyrinth, you always end the journey exactly where the journey started.
Cathedrals are more dynamic. there are various rooms, interconnected hallways, and multiple entries and exits. there are options, which is very much... like... the interior of a labyrinth... right? a lot of decisions.
Entering a room in a cathedral though? only one entry/exit. so that's a labyrinth. whatever story is told in that room has to return to how it began…
Tactics are what works in the meta, but might not work tomorrow—i.e. tips on running Facebook Ads or how to launch a PFP NFT collection. And the meta creates imitation because it works quickly.
Principles are timeless, i.e. focusing your startup on a hyper-specific use case before scaling it. Use of principles can create a meta and let you reap big rewards from that innovation…
One way to maintain a common purpose and group cohesion in larger groups is by defining a strong sense of shared identity with a clear and reiterated purpose, or even a collective mythology…
Beauty in a digital is more about the bones than the skin, more about structure and less about facades, more about content than styles…
Everything online has some stamp of human on it. In a similar way cities are full of right angles (a human invention), there are a lot of proverbial right angles online. In nature, a true right angle doesn’t exist…
perhaps the 'compulsion for production' means that we enjoy solving puzzles that we can see (forward motion) and activation of visual senses… in the coming years as we experiment with how to create greater depth of experiences complemented by digital tech, we might be able to recapture the art of leisure not just as an activity but as a mindset….
Software is only half of the game. The other half is trained cybrarians, knowledge gardeners, and knowledge ecologists…
The battle for “cozy internet” has just begun…
Community management is a kind of infinite scroll where, whether you want or mean it or not, you come to be a node - and it’s hard to boundary that feeling & the privilege / complexity of that position into what we call a job…
The hyper financialization mindset of web3 makes for the hyper productization of community as most peoples moats in web3…
Informal neighborhood gathering places were, for many years, an integral part of our cities and towns. Since World War II, they've been vanishing. An exploration of why "third places" are so important to the health of our communities.
https://truecenterpublishing.com/psycyber/disinhibit.html
The difference between Communities, Groups, and Networks Taxonomy of social forms, part 1. Our traditional communities are evaporating. The advance of communication and transportation technologies ...
The internet has changed what "community" means.
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
Most of my friends have been on the internet, and I've spent many years as part of various internet communities, many of which I have moderated as either part of the mod team or the sole creator. (this also applies to irl communities, but the pattern is more obvious with online ones) There's a pattern that...
To avoid lock in, you need the ability for the user to credibly exit.
https://every.to/napkin-math/content-moderation-double-bind-theory
“What’s culturally relevant is valuable to own”
Finn, Folklore Member
Welcome back! It’s been a long few months and we continue to read and discuss together about online culture, communities, and how they are influencing our lives.
As of today, we’ve curated 200 pieces of content. The running list is available here in a google spreadsheet
If you are a Season 1 Member:
Collect a Genesis member badge
Curate with us at OnPulse
A reminder that our linktree has all our community links.
Join us at ETHDenver for Breakfast on March 5th
You can get a token to join the event here (free for members)
This week we will publish our first essay by our own community member Finn. Funds from the Writing NFTs will be split between Finn and the Folklore Community Treasury
I’m working on a new project called “LOCAL” helping bridge physical makers to the emerging on-chain economy. Learn more here.
Overall, a note of gratitude to everyone helping build the Folklore space. If you feel lost or confused, read first about decentralised media networks and then about Folklore’s participation process.
We’ve spent 6 months exploring our current technology. We invite you to purchase a mid-season membership if you’d like to join our journey. The price includes the rest of Season 1, likely until the summer, and Season 2.
https://zora.co/collections/0x30fbfb1416803b3e46d82811ce7aea0a21af12ce
Our community has curated over 200 pieces of content over the past 6 months. And in the Forum, we’ve had the opportunity to learn together. Here are a few choice quotes from our dialogue.
If a quote is yours, message @rafathebuilder on Telegram to claim a special badge.
labyrinths never go anywhere. the labyrinth is always exactly where it is and how it is, and there's only one entry and it's also the exit. no matter where you go in a labyrinth, you always end the journey exactly where the journey started.
Cathedrals are more dynamic. there are various rooms, interconnected hallways, and multiple entries and exits. there are options, which is very much... like... the interior of a labyrinth... right? a lot of decisions.
Entering a room in a cathedral though? only one entry/exit. so that's a labyrinth. whatever story is told in that room has to return to how it began…
Tactics are what works in the meta, but might not work tomorrow—i.e. tips on running Facebook Ads or how to launch a PFP NFT collection. And the meta creates imitation because it works quickly.
Principles are timeless, i.e. focusing your startup on a hyper-specific use case before scaling it. Use of principles can create a meta and let you reap big rewards from that innovation…
One way to maintain a common purpose and group cohesion in larger groups is by defining a strong sense of shared identity with a clear and reiterated purpose, or even a collective mythology…
Beauty in a digital is more about the bones than the skin, more about structure and less about facades, more about content than styles…
Everything online has some stamp of human on it. In a similar way cities are full of right angles (a human invention), there are a lot of proverbial right angles online. In nature, a true right angle doesn’t exist…
perhaps the 'compulsion for production' means that we enjoy solving puzzles that we can see (forward motion) and activation of visual senses… in the coming years as we experiment with how to create greater depth of experiences complemented by digital tech, we might be able to recapture the art of leisure not just as an activity but as a mindset….
Software is only half of the game. The other half is trained cybrarians, knowledge gardeners, and knowledge ecologists…
The battle for “cozy internet” has just begun…
Community management is a kind of infinite scroll where, whether you want or mean it or not, you come to be a node - and it’s hard to boundary that feeling & the privilege / complexity of that position into what we call a job…
The hyper financialization mindset of web3 makes for the hyper productization of community as most peoples moats in web3…
Informal neighborhood gathering places were, for many years, an integral part of our cities and towns. Since World War II, they've been vanishing. An exploration of why "third places" are so important to the health of our communities.
https://truecenterpublishing.com/psycyber/disinhibit.html
The difference between Communities, Groups, and Networks Taxonomy of social forms, part 1. Our traditional communities are evaporating. The advance of communication and transportation technologies ...
The internet has changed what "community" means.
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
Most of my friends have been on the internet, and I've spent many years as part of various internet communities, many of which I have moderated as either part of the mod team or the sole creator. (this also applies to irl communities, but the pattern is more obvious with online ones) There's a pattern that...
To avoid lock in, you need the ability for the user to credibly exit.
https://every.to/napkin-math/content-moderation-double-bind-theory
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