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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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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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We will feast on excellent content, explore new theories, and nurture opportunities to craft, decorate and garden.
We continue on our journey to learn about digital cultures and how the internet is shaping our world. A few updates:
By next week, we’ll likely hit 100 curated articles (currently at 96!)
A shout out to the 77 Folks participating in the Forum conversation. This is >50% of token holders.
We’ve launched a new community curation process, details below.
We will be launching a new free-tier membership NFT soon.
We have a new linktree gathering all our community links. In our next update, we will share an update on how to contribute.
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.
Last week, Forefront invited us to participate in an experiment. Moving forward, everyone with a Folklore token will be able to participate in communal curation of articles that will surface in our "DRIP".
How to get started:
Download the chrome extension here
Sign-in with the wallet where you have the Folklore Member Token
Visit any website, and you can "bookmark" to our community curated library - make sure to be on the website when you click the extension.
Visit our curated library here (https://www.onpulse.xyz/folklore) (You'll need to sign-in with the same wallet)
The curated library also allows you to upvote and add comments to articles that you read, so you can have gentle, long-term conversations about the articles we curate together.
This experiment will continue through the first 2 seasons at Folklore.
https://www.metalabel.xyz/magazine/features/how-culture-is-made
https://humanparts.medium.com/how-to-internet-6c379e75c8e0#.7x48lygqf
Daily newsletter about entertainment. Click to read Dirt, a Substack publication.
Generation Z, those born after 1997, are the canaries in the coal mine of privacy.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/tik-tok-comedy/
All earnings from collection of this post will be split 50-50 between the non-profit I support (Obras del País) and Folklore’s community treasury. Treasury funds will be fully utilized to commission new essays related to our new digital realms.
We will feast on excellent content, explore new theories, and nurture opportunities to craft, decorate and garden.
We continue on our journey to learn about digital cultures and how the internet is shaping our world. A few updates:
By next week, we’ll likely hit 100 curated articles (currently at 96!)
A shout out to the 77 Folks participating in the Forum conversation. This is >50% of token holders.
We’ve launched a new community curation process, details below.
We will be launching a new free-tier membership NFT soon.
We have a new linktree gathering all our community links. In our next update, we will share an update on how to contribute.
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.
Last week, Forefront invited us to participate in an experiment. Moving forward, everyone with a Folklore token will be able to participate in communal curation of articles that will surface in our "DRIP".
How to get started:
Download the chrome extension here
Sign-in with the wallet where you have the Folklore Member Token
Visit any website, and you can "bookmark" to our community curated library - make sure to be on the website when you click the extension.
Visit our curated library here (https://www.onpulse.xyz/folklore) (You'll need to sign-in with the same wallet)
The curated library also allows you to upvote and add comments to articles that you read, so you can have gentle, long-term conversations about the articles we curate together.
This experiment will continue through the first 2 seasons at Folklore.
https://www.metalabel.xyz/magazine/features/how-culture-is-made
https://humanparts.medium.com/how-to-internet-6c379e75c8e0#.7x48lygqf
Daily newsletter about entertainment. Click to read Dirt, a Substack publication.
Generation Z, those born after 1997, are the canaries in the coal mine of privacy.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/tik-tok-comedy/
All earnings from collection of this post will be split 50-50 between the non-profit I support (Obras del País) and Folklore’s community treasury. Treasury funds will be fully utilized to commission new essays related to our new digital realms.
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