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Sure. I have no issue with that. But I suspect long term this coalesces to almost all traffic going through front-ends that have both ads and transaction fees not one or the other.
Aside:
One more time though “central planning” is not a leftist thing. Monarchies, corporations, militaries, and even most liberal democracies run by incumbent right wing parties utilize central planning (and subsidy!). I’m not saying it’s good. I prefer a more anarchistic (many parts working on their own towards common, similar, or even opposing goals) approach to organization of networks, organizations, and society. And where things are invoked by a central source it should be one with complete democratic oversite, the likes of which we haven’t really seen outside Rojava. In this way, central planning would be a misnomer for consensus.
A secret they don’t want you to know:
You already had millions of ways to respond through the beauty of written language (and photos and gifs) 🤫
But I take your point
I’m not sure what your misguided point about redlining was. That has absolutely nothing to do with leftism. Redlining was and is caused by systemic racism and power imbalances of the finance industry and the people more broadly. It was private banks in the US who redlined not the government owned institutions in some former Soviet bloc.
Moving on from that you made a few points that I agree with on principle but which I have follow-up questions to:
“Things have costs, yes, but that doesn’t mean [they] are valuable at a large scale”
What was your point in this paragraph? I didn’t understand. $4 is too much? It should be cheaper? The lack of a market for secondary means they should charge to mint a profile?
Additionally, wouldn’t the lack of price lead to more bots minting profiles?
“I don’t like the ad sponsored model…”
This paragraph again is a bit hard to follow. Are you suggesting that if profiles were valued like fren tech follows (the model orb stickers have copied), that this would be better? Wouldn’t that still involve paying and financialization of the profiles.
Assuming you don’t answer it in response to the above, what’s your ideal outcome in terms of price and other profile economic design considerations?
All things have costs. There are realistic expressions of those costs like an upfront price, and super shady abstractions like surveillance capital.
Leftism is a big tent. Versions which incorporate markets would see no issue here. The easiest solutions to provide equity being subsidy, solidarity, and sponsorship. Non-transferrable currency socialism would also apply a price here. Only currency-less options like pure communism wouldn’t. In those iterations the cost would be absorbed into the greater labour pool. I’m not promoting that however.
The only solution that I see you liking is an ad-sponsored model, and, given your intelligence, I assume you already know—and arguing in bad faith—that this is already possible on Lens. If clients want to sponsor signups, for any reason (to monetize via transactions, to monetize via ads, to monetize via token launch etc), it can, and is, being done.
Disagree. I think one of the core values of decentralized social networking is that we’re moving away from the lie that everything is free, where free entry is facilitated by the “you’re the product” mentality; towards a new, more ethical model.
The initial buy in is an important rite of passage into this new meta.
“Many of these games” refers to the games mentioned in the quoted cast from Farcaster. Here it is again
warpcast.com/thumbsup.eth/0xd1fc2efe
It’s called nationalism. Not my vibe personally, but I agree, they are definitely #1 in it
They killed likes. Instead people can “like” by adding a sticker. The UI is very confusing. As far as I can tell, unless you buy stickers, you actually can’t react to anyone’s posts except by comment/repost
That does help thanks. Would be nice to be able to opt into the chats rather than having a full inbox
A little bit. It seems interesting. A TEE is definitely gonna speed up transactions but I’m not sure how I feel about it. Interesting utility they just created for UNI token though.
What are your thoughts?