Hey friends 👋

As you know I haven't been writing much the past couple years. I've written a lot already about why but the reality is, I've been in a funk. I wasn't able to dig deep into the well of creativity I felt these posts deserved. I wondered for a long time if I should revise the format, if anyone would read it.

At the same time, I've grown a bit jaded with so-called web3 platforms. As time goes on, one after another, they seem to all abandon core principles and become little more than another casino.

I've actually just finished updating my most popular post of all time, The Next Chapter: Onchain Patronage, for this new era of exploitation, as I see it.

This brings me to the reason I'm writing this post. Deeply disheartened by the direction Paragraph has taken this platform in, saddened by the death of Mirror, and newly captivated by the power of truly open platforms, I am abandoning Thumbs' Update.

In its wake, I am beginning a new project, The Thumbs Up Blog, a self-hosted blog, run via the static site creator Hugo. This lightweight, open source software allows me to push my raw markdown files, to the web in seconds, sync with rss readers, and with the help of a technology called standard.site, syndicate to Bluesky's at protocol to be read on sites like leaflet.pub and pckt.blog.

This will be my final post on Paragraph. As you may have seen already, I'm asking that no one buy my so-called creator coin, thumbsup. I think these coins are a disease that has infected and effectively ruined everything crypto could have been for creators. And I want to say from the bottom of my heart...

Fuck Zora and fuck Paragraph for forcing them on us.

At the same time as I abandon Paragraph, I will be abandoning my mailing list. I won't be exporting it and emailing you from a new platform. So if you hope to continue to hear from me, you have 3 options:

1. go directly to my new blog

2. add my RSS feed to your favourite RSS reader

3. from pckt or leaflet (or any similar reader in the future), "subscribe" to my blog and you should see updates as they come.

And of course, you can find me on various microblogging sites from Bluesky to Mastodon to Farcaster and, once in a while, even Lens.

I can't promise I will always be on those platforms. But I can tell you that from now, for as long as I'm writing, you can find me here 👇

The Thumbs Up Blog

Trying something new here

https://thumbsup.me

So long and thanks for all the fish.

And as always,

Thumbs Up

Hey friends 👋

As you know I haven't been writing much the past couple years. I've written a lot already about why but the reality is, I've been in a funk. I wasn't able to dig deep into the well of creativity I felt these posts deserved. I wondered for a long time if I should revise the format, if anyone would read it.

At the same time, I've grown a bit jaded with so-called web3 platforms. As time goes on, one after another, they seem to all abandon core principles and become little more than another casino.

I've actually just finished updating my most popular post of all time, The Next Chapter: Onchain Patronage, for this new era of exploitation, as I see it.

This brings me to the reason I'm writing this post. Deeply disheartened by the direction Paragraph has taken this platform in, saddened by the death of Mirror, and newly captivated by the power of truly open platforms, I am abandoning Thumbs' Update.

In its wake, I am beginning a new project, The Thumbs Up Blog, a self-hosted blog, run via the static site creator Hugo. This lightweight, open source software allows me to push my raw markdown files, to the web in seconds, sync with rss readers, and with the help of a technology called standard.site, syndicate to Bluesky's at protocol to be read on sites like leaflet.pub and pckt.blog.

This will be my final post on Paragraph. As you may have seen already, I'm asking that no one buy my so-called creator coin, thumbsup. I think these coins are a disease that has infected and effectively ruined everything crypto could have been for creators. And I want to say from the bottom of my heart...

Fuck Zora and fuck Paragraph for forcing them on us.

At the same time as I abandon Paragraph, I will be abandoning my mailing list. I won't be exporting it and emailing you from a new platform. So if you hope to continue to hear from me, you have 3 options:

1. go directly to my new blog

2. add my RSS feed to your favourite RSS reader

3. from pckt or leaflet (or any similar reader in the future), "subscribe" to my blog and you should see updates as they come.

And of course, you can find me on various microblogging sites from Bluesky to Mastodon to Farcaster and, once in a while, even Lens.

I can't promise I will always be on those platforms. But I can tell you that from now, for as long as I'm writing, you can find me here 👇

The Thumbs Up Blog

Trying something new here

https://thumbsup.me

So long and thanks for all the fish.

And as always,

Thumbs Up