I talk all the time to artists who say “I just want to support my work, and it seems like there’s an audience.” or individuals who say “I found a nice, welcoming community that’s having fun talking about art and tech.” Those are reasonable views. And we should engage with them.
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Just as importantly, the potential of a technology is both what it can do technically and what it can do socially. Yes, you can often use an existing database or payment system to do things more efficiently. But people *believing* a particular tech is good for a purpose matters.
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The aesthetics of the most visible projects are not to my taste, but that’s largely irrelevant to the social dynamics that are happening. I want to push those who are rightfully critical to engage more effectively and thoughtfully. Otherwise you’re handing it all over.
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Trying to prevent exploitation by scolding people as being fools is simply not going to work, especially when those doing the scolding are perceived as having already profited from the previous generation of platforms — which caused their own extensive harms.
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As this thread spreads outside of folks who know me, people are (understandably!) reacting to "too big to fail". What I mean is: the idea of web3 has meaning to a lot of people who are going to want to fill that social need, and there needs to be some responsible answer for that.
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Here's a better articulation; I think catures it perfectly. "I do not think Web3 is a desirable or even tolerable path forward for this web right here, but I take its lesson well." society.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-
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I don’t find it tolerable, but lots if people do. So I’m trying to navigate that.
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equating all of "web3" with the proud boys is 🤯. is correct - it's much more diverse than you think. you should go back and take a second look and inform yourself. this thread might help.
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Funny and potentially worrying thing, the superficially inclusive wagmi sensibility does not extend as far as claimed. Web3 has a very definite outgroup: all of tradfi, including hybrid things like coinbase that are centralized and have one foot in crypto world, one in fiat.
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Proud boys I suspect would tend Bitcoin maxis and those people hate Web3 more than techlashers
yep. and even among the bitcoin maxis i would imagine the fash are a very small number. i liked this diagram of the space too! 👍
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