Web3 is About Ownership
A lot of people ask me why I don’t use Farcaster, and the answer really comes down to one simple fact: you don’t own anything on Farcaster.
On Farcaster, usernames are centralized and “storage” is rented. What is storage? Basically everything. Your posts, likes, follows, and profile data all require yearly fees to be paid or else they’re gone forever. This is one of the main benefits of using blockchain for a social graph, and the main reason I can never find real interest in Farcaster.
It’s important to remember that not all products building on Lens Protocol are building with ownership as a priority. A good example of this is Orb Clubs, where you must pay a yearly fee to Orb, and you don’t actually own the Club (or its treasury wallet).
I just voted "Approve" on "Stargate Foundation RFP Proposal" snapshot.org/#/stgdao.eth/proposal/0x615d93ccb7ea0103c48907421bf7b3967fc5300c539b7fbb896d50cb5dfd90ad #SnapshotVote
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The resume for the onchain era of the internet by @talentprotocol
Users input what they want to see in a social feed: subject matter, media type, mood, profile groups, incentivized posts, etc.
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In the background, a language model generates a SQL query to filter a social media dataset and curate a custom feed for the user.
This is the future that public and composable social graphs enable. Who will help make this future a reality with Lens?
Lens BigQuery is a public dataset optimised for protocol-level queries: docs.lens.xyz/docs/public-big-query
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BONSAI Token Launch 🍃
Bonsai is a #DN404 token on #Polygon, for a community of builders, explorers, and early adopters of onchain social.
For every 100k $BONSAI tokens in your wallet, you also hold 1 BONSAI NFT (reveal soon)
Season 1 airdrop went to active profiles across the @lens ecosystem. Seasons 2 & 3 will reward usage of $BONSAI for collects and open actions. Swap & Liquidity Providing (LP) open actions coming soon.
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I just voted "Yes" on "Record and Publish Stargate Community Calls" snapshot.org/#/stgdao.eth/proposal/0x11e9daab4e806cba220d5d6eae6be76f799f27ad20723d0aabedf0263ca2a28f #Snapshot
I just voted "Yes" on "Grow POL on Optimism by leveraging Stargate's veVELO vote power on Velodrome" snapshot.org/#/stgdao.eth/proposal/0x80aea4dbb7406fa7a25858d241f708d39064404c2d5d65d50602b30dc01c2a15 #Snapshot