I gave up because I didn’t want the grief of managing that crap. But the result is Mastodon has relatively clean partitions of server graph by ideology. It has a Schelling sorting effect. Result: polarized map of homogeneous patches kinda like US red/blue states.
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Mastodon to me looks like Star Trek universe. Kinda simple divisions into regimes. FC is named for the Farcaster from Hyperion, which is a much more complex and entangled universe. I hope that’s what it induces.
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4. Energy Trilemma (new to me but I trust Michael that it’s a sound one)
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Another Trilemma people should know about is the Energy Trilemma: security, equity/cost, sustainability
not sure why this graphic needs so many triangles but there they are
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I’ve been obsessed with such trilemmas for a long time… 20-7 post about them
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All that said, I do think we’re in twitter endgame. After the Facebook flounces of ~2015-16 or so when Zuck fell from Grace, the core product has been clearly put out to pasture. After an interim messenger/WhatsApp based model, they’ve finally pivoted to metaverse.
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I’ve remained on Facebook throughout but stopped considering it for new stuff in 2016. It’s just harvest mode for me due to a couple of good groups I’m in. I have a Quest and have dipped my toe in VR. Metaverse stuff is at the same centralized/decentralized fork in the road.
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As with the Elon-Jack partnership and the Bluesky thing over the horizon, Meta has non-trivial flirtations going with federation etc. It’s not just PR. Everybody sees this fork coming. People who don’t trust Meta are messing around with decanterland etc.
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The great divide in the post-social, post-capitalist web will be between crypto vs non-crypto approaches.
Which I think of as superliminal vs. subliminal. Star Trek is a subliminal universe (not counting Q). Most other universes are superliminal. Both are valid choices.
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Crypto is an “FTL drive” type tech in that it exploits weird math/physics are produces weird social dilemmas with weird solutions. Non-crypto things produce more familiar dilemmas with familiar solutions.
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For eg on mastodon the big political problems are still right vs left etc.
In crypto, there’s some of that (Bitcoin vs ETH at least has a “right vs left” eigenvector though most people are not “maxis” but hold both) but it’s mostly new conflicts with new mitigations.
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Hehe. Great minds think alike but may not be partition tolerant and therefore exhibit some redundancy.
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web3 - the "3" stands for trilemma
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Lol I’d forgotten I said this.
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If you really want a Third Way and you haven’t even come up with a pick-2-of-3 trilemma to work with, to get started, are you even trying.
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From farcaster founder
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Our thinking on SMTP oligopoly:
farcasterxyz.notion.site/Decentralizati
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