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I still think “if you’re not paying you’re the product” was a deeply disingenuous attack on Web2 by a privileged bunch of Web1 early adopters who acted like everybody should have the technical and financial ability to oat for ad-free Mastodon servers.
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I ran a Mastodon server for a couple of years ( runs it now). It was non-trivial work+cost. I’d rather “be the product” and click on the occasional ad (odd btw how a Web2 virtue, paying do you’re not the product, is suddenly a Web3 vice?) for bigger public spaces.
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Web2 replaced Web1 because it genuinely created more openness for more people at lower cost than Web1 ever did. All while weathering criticism from Web1 mavens fetishizing USENET and The Well. Now Web2 mavens are doing it to Web3. Eventually Web3 mavens will do it to Web4 🤣
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This thread is now too big and unwieldy. I might stop it simply because it's too big, and start a new thread with a clearer Chapter 2 quest to it. Open to suggestions on what to do with it. I don't have the energy to transform it into longform rn.
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This thread is formally done as of this tweet. We’re now officially in the after-party portion of this thread. Any further tweets should be considered 2x more shitposty and 3x more drunk.
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Drunk thought 1 We need a Web3-native word like “operator” that’s not operator. It seems to mean all the wrong things in Web2 mode. So something more procedural and less guanxi-cronyism. Less FAANG alum with sketchy “2x exits” bio, more Humphrey Appleby. Nominations open
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My candidates Token whisperer Non-fungible player Whip (my favorite, as in party-line vote rustler in legislatures) Whipperer = whip + whisperer Stonecarver (cf immutability) Blocktackler (as in block-and-tackle pulleys buy also blocking and tackling)
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🤔 Maybe it's time to stop sandboxing Web3 poasting with polite qualifiers and prompts to skeptics to mute/unfollow. It's a bit tedious to deal with open reactions to unhedged tweets, but it's also annoying to tiptoe around the sensitivities of skeptics
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I'm personally still neutral on all crypto stuff but your enthusiasm makes me more interested bc although my perspective/opinions don't necessarily align with yours, they significantly overlap in general, so I find your posts on this subject to be like a trustworthy lighthouse.
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