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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Like MEV frontrunners vs users with ETH. Which has a weird proposed solution involving something called “danksharding.”
The conflicts are several hyperspatial jumps away from boring left vs right. Maybe they can be managed. Maybe not. But at least it’s interesting new conflicts.
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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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