Two things I’ll fight to the grave on:
• Most artists don’t understand their work is not just shaped but completely beholden to the tools they use.
• Lens should’ve built on Base.
Collecting doesn’t make data valuable.
Usage does.
This was established in 1948.
For proof see: @orb stickers
My observation:
Lens crowd: Mostly artists + some devs, maybe lacking business experience but totally open to new ideas and experiments. Everything is valid until proven otherwise.
Farcaster crowd: Mostly devs and CT influencers experimenting within a very narrow band of possibilities, thinking they not only understand Web3 better than most but routinely ignoring ideas which actually explain how to build crypto-native applications.
I promise you the majority of the Farcaster crowd does not actually understand web3. These are not supremely brilliant people, they are mostly web2 drones experimenting within a web2 framework. They don’t even have their own @jessyjeanne or @chloee or @zospours or @asamisscream or @internetfase or @infinati
I hope no one here ever feels fomo about what’s going on over there. They may make more noise at times but I promise you the cooler shit is being built here on Lens 👉
Exceptions:
Shibuya.xyz
Basepaint.xyz
End game indeed.
“I’m posting everyday until the timeline realizes they’ve been short-changed” 😭
I wish Lens collects/mints/nfts played nice with the rest of the world. My favorite content I've collected is on this platform and almost all of it is incompatible with the rest of crypto. This needs to change!
Wanted to share what I’m working on:
I’ve created a grid builder that lets users build Instagram-like grids from their NFT collections. This is very, very easy to do. The grids are ERC-721 tokens (they could be any standard).
The 721 standard defines
“trait_type” : “Eyes”
“value”: “Blue”
to be the typical way one writes the traits that show up.
I use it to write “Item 1 - Name” and “<NFT Name>” so when a grid is loaded into any NFT app like OpenSea or Rainbow Wallet users can see the names of all the items in the grid. The only thing extra I’m writing is to make another “trait type” and fill it with my custom data. Standard apps discard that data while my apps read it. Simple.
So I create a trait type called “NFT 1-9” and for the value the only things necessary are the contract address and token ID (I’m writing more data right now but they’re not necessary). Then when the app displays a grid it finds the contract and token ID for each item in the grid, then uses a service like Reservoir or Alchemy or Moralis etc to fetch them.
I’m sharing here because maybe people don’t know how easy it is to write app data into standard NFTs. And on Base it’s currently costing me $0.001 to mint these bloated, unoptimized NFTs.
NFTs can store any data at all. You can write whatever the hell you want to them, including other NFTs.
NFTs are “app data” before they are anything else.
Build apps which use them as such.
I want to be supportive, but this is really bad design. It looks like a folder of failed Google apps. It does not look like an app icon.
Given today’s news and postings it’s the first time in 2 years I’ve felt Zora might actually overtake Lens. Sigh.