Now that FC is dead and since I‘m a proud European, I‘m already eying my next move in social media.
The EU‘s new W social network looks really promising.
Finally I don‘t have to listen to bad takes on Nuclear anymore. Clear names will help me hold those accountable who don‘t comply with our European values. And, the best of all: No more crypto scams!
I feel like these calls to battle don‘t do much anymore
- affordability crisis in many countries
- outlook of war and uncertainty (AI)
- ZIRP era savings gone
- public goods funding gone
You can post these things. Sure. But Sir, nobody has money or opportunity to follow you. We all have to work a job
FC failing is a kind of revenge of the nerds microcosm.
The nerds want finance and tech. Not a popularity contest.
So they used their dominance to end every other popularity contest on here. NFTs are dead. Memecoins. Public goods, DAOs. All dead.
The nerds may continue to succeed this way. But crypto will then just be boring infra. It‘ll stay behind its potential as a world-changing technology
Everyone: Farcaster changed my life
Defi/CT: Fuck this fucking piece of shit app. I fucking hate them and I gambled and prayed many times for their demise. Fucking losers get what they deserve
Now that FC team has failed I wonder if I can just post here fully dissenting on all time classic ideas which were defended to the last day:
- Convenience is not what users uniquely seek out
- Revealed preference thinking isn‘t the path to consumer product success
- Users care about decentralization/privacy
The problem here with @vitalik.eth‘s „this is corposlop“ argument is that it requires a sense of hipster sensibility in the average stock buyer, for them to recognize that Ethereum is much better than the NYSE.
And ultimately only the seasoned corposlop sensibility enjoyer is also going to differentiate Ethereum against Solana.
That feels even less scalable than artisanal bread. Which is a tiny market. More people buy bread than stonks
https://x.com/mdudas/status/2013247095315009556?s=46
Two things often falsely described as cheap/free:
- Nuclear energy
- Health care
In both cases, when the public sector runs these you can‘t really say „they are cheap.“ You perceive them as cheap because the state does them