Events like these happening primarily in SF is what still keeps up SF as the Centre of gravity
While I don’t believe SF to be the end all be all that it was pre 2016 and especially Pre 2020 Pandemic it still has gravity and the people.
A downside of the post 2020 world of multiple contenders or alternative options is that they aren’t in one place. And no the internet isn’t physical (yet cc
@balajis.eth is working on it)
The manifestations into physical mostly happen to be in SF (yes
@segall I confess), which drives reputation & gravity.
The internet being the second largest it leveraged properly. (See most of the people who rose with Farcaster)
As the internet keeps becoming bigger gravity of it increases, but we’re not at the point where ClawCon can/will happen purely on the internet.
