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Trigs

@trigs #190108

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I probably shouldn't have made a bracky meme when I've never used it and am not even in the channel to share it there.

It was just too funny not to!
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Trigs
@trigs·2 hours ago
Lol I don't know why but this just made me want to mint it. My first and probably only Zora post 🤣

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Lol I don't know why but this just made me want to mint it. My first and probably only Zora post 🤣

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"'When everyone can do everything,' one founder confessed, staring into his untouched wine, 'doing anything starts to feel meaningless.' After a thoughtful silence, another suggested that perhaps meaning was never about output at all, but about connection, presence, and the quality of our experience."
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"This shift in what we optimize for doesn't mean rejecting productivity gains. Rather, it means capturing those gains as genuine improvements to human flourishing instead of feeding them back into an endless cycle of escalation."
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"When everyone suddenly gets 10x more powerful, the hard part isn't doing things—deciding what's worth doing in the first place."
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Trigs
@trigs·8 hours ago
"Leisure's opportunity cost skyrockets. When an hour of work generates what once took days, rest becomes luxury taxed by your own conscience. Every pause carries an invisible price tag that flickers in your peripheral vision."
"Leisure's opportunity cost skyrockets. When an hour of work generates what once took days, rest becomes luxury taxed by your own conscience. Every pause carries an invisible price tag that flickers in your peripheral vision."
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"as individuals become much more empowered, how does one stop oneself from working, that now the opportunity cost of not working becomes almost infinite?"

Cuts to the core of it.
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When decentralized systems fail, it's the contributors who get hung out to dry.
So I very reluctantly verified a phone number on Warpcast to see how much it boosted my "human score".

Within an hour I suddenly got a message saying my number was used at Chuck E. Cheese with a link (I obviously didn't click). This is my spam number, to be fair, but I also almost never get spam on it, so timing was easily sus for a tinfoil hat wearer.

Obviously I don't actually believe they are related, but my first reaction was to burn my Warpcast to the ground.

I very strongly hope that this system improves over time such that phone verification is only helpful for newcomers that are in a hurry.

There should be a path to proving humanity through genuine engagement on the platform that doesn't require questionable offchain verification steps that could compromise one's privacy or forces someone to have accounts on other platforms that do the same.
Also interesting about capture:

Social capture can actually be easier than governance vote capture.

Imagine if 1 delegate in a governance system was able to garner 51% of the delegation votes. That's capture.

Imagine if 1 loud, opinionated person was able to get the majority of voters to agree with them simply by having more social presence in the community that can 'drown' out other voices by obfuscating and diffusing their message so it doesn't garner widespread attention? That's capture.

Imagine if a social media platform is able to influence what people see in their feed with algorithms that essentially result in censorship that leads to a populist authoritarian getting the loudest voice? That's capture.

See where this is going?

This is why we need robust, decentralized, censor resistant technology.
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Reading this thread is a great example of why decentralized leadership is hard.

Nouns has suffered from captured governance most of its existence, from what I've seen from the outside. Much like the majority of DAOs, mind you. Large holders tend to control the votes. This is nothing unique to nouns!

Some people *prefer* it when there's a strong, informed leader(s) that can control decisions. Keeps other bad actors and uninformed voters at bay.

Some projects do it on purpose as a path of progressive decentralization.

But the fact that there are people who don't even recognize that this is literally governance capture is why education is more crucial than innovation in this space.
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Chris Carella
@ccarella.eth·a day ago
Nouns is an emergent org which is something to love about it. As new members engage and others step back, or as entities acquire substantial governance stakes, the DAO's direction and ethos adapt accordingly. These transitions, while potentially disorienting, ultimately reflect the collective will of the community. Recently, I've become more attuned to this evolving meta, recognizing a shift towards a revitalized and healthy vision. Its probably time for me to step back, not because I disagree with the emergent meta but because it's not the right time for me to be in multiple discords, calls and dms to understand the meta. I'm looking for a delegate who would. I look forward to where Nouns is going while my heart will always be tied to the version that had an unwavering love and support for Ethereum and Ethereum Public Goods.

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We all have 2 protocols inside us:

- the protocol for following protocol
- the protocol for breaking protocol

The protocol that wins is the protocol you feed.
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rafa
@rafa·a day ago
The penalty for breaking protocol is increasingly costly (but reaches a plateau) the longer you follow protocol for.

It is often less expensive to break protocol often, especially you become an expert at navigating protocols related to breaking protocol.
I actually strongly and vehemently disagree that you shouldn't let these negatives upset you.

They should fill your every waking moment with a fear that motivates you to prioritize seeking out local-first, private AI technologies that guarantee keeping your "secrets" safe.

Once we've given away our greatest assets, our internal cognitive processing, we will finalize our mental captivity.

Do you really want to just give away the keys to your own mind and *pay* for the privilege to do so??

https://warpcast.com/redphone/0x98c20565
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Redphone
@redphone·a day ago
5. Why are cognitive reframers good at prompting? Bc it’s very similar to altering our own inner monologues

6. Here's what crazy: we typically keep our inner monologues secret… now, we’re migrating those monologues to LLMs
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Redphone
@redphone·a day ago
8. There will be yuge consequences to this externalization (good and bad). A few bad outcomes:

a) LLMs will be hacked and your inner monologue could be exposed to the world

b) by better knowing your inner monologue, LLMs will get better at educating (& manipulating) you
Time to turn off the screens and force them to make things worth watching.

We can see the man behind the curtain now, but we still keep indulging the fodder instead of demanding something elevated.

I love TV and movies, but I find myself falling asleep or just plain forgetting what I'm watching lately because it's just not interesting anymore. Even stuff that's good isn't actually that good at this point.

Beginning, story, end. Simple formula, that's all we demand.
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Zach
@zherring·2 days ago
Every streaming TV show represents a (min) 20-30 hour commitment ... But the incentives for quality are deeply misaligned.

I made an exception with Severance and regret it. Back to films after the finale.

https://open.substack.com/pub/trungphan/p/the-case-against-streaming-tv-shows?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1mt65z
Life cycle of the Web3 contributor:

1. Get involved with passion projects
2. Get paid in magic internet money that just gets rugged
3. Do side work while you build your skills & network
4. Repeat 1 expecting different results

There are no different results.
This is a really long article talking about an even longer book that describes all the multitude of ways that complex systems often have unintended results when they don't factor in all the externalities properly.

Whether it's food supply chains, manufacturing, or technology... this transition to a global economy is shattering local-first systems that have provided so much security against various kinds of systemic collapse that we aren't even aware of how to price them in to our markets.

Lessons to be learned here when thinking about how to design web3 systems...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/pacific-circuit-oakland/682076/?gift=SL1bhJXCWnGzjRDwrSOLZCRGcJAbI8wQe9eAPJNUgBw
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links 🏴
@links·2 days ago
Reddit comments are really interesting under this milquetoast article about why Canada isn't experiencing an egg shortage while the US is.

TL;DR:
- Supply management policies lead to smaller farms and a more fluid egg market within Canada
- Stronger biosecurity requirement (ex. changing boots between barns, which is considered too expensive in the US)

Diagramming the Pacific Circuit

In the Bay Area, as elsewhere, the working classes have seen their jobs go overseas and their neighborhoods become unaffordable.

www.theatlantic.com
Today I learned about @lowercasecards.eth

Very interesting project working to help expand the general knowledge around this new industry of terms! Excited to find out more!

What are your ideas for how this could be integrated into our web3 UX?

https://lowercase.cards
I love the positive take here.

I'm going to add my anecdotal experience here, as an old fart who watched the Internet be born:

The Internet gave me access to knowledge previously only the most elite knowledge workers could obtain.

"Don't be a slave to the system, make your own change in the world"

It's a common message! It isn't new to the current generation growing up with AI, it was my mantra as well!

But the reality is that the future of change will be defined by the systems we create, not by the breakout individuals who make the biggest waves. Our society is trained to be obsessed with these revolutionary individuals, but the changes they introduce into the world are systematized before getting adopted by the masses.

My challenge is to stop focusing on the freedom this technology brings, but rather the systems that are built around it and what doors these systems can open for everyone.

https://warpcast.com/trigs/0x3f090d4e
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Trigs
@trigs·6 days ago
It's unsurprising and exciting to see common threads of focus shifting towards the systems that enable people to become high quality contributors.

Being systematic about addressing the practical needs of normal users will go a long way towards getting high quality results!

https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x109da0c3

https://warpcast.com/polluterofminds/0x755d55e9
No better place to put this than the Slow Core HQ!

Moving slow, disconnecting from tech, and valuing real experiences is exactly what makes life worth living!
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Leo
@leohenkels·6 days ago
Some ramblings:

Was bopping around Italy for the last 10 days, and I only checked WC a few times. Before traveling I was checking 10 times a day or so.

Is this a good or a bad thing? Should the WC feed be more addictive or is it actually a feature that the client is not so addictive?

Centralized social media is incentivized to make their product extremely addictive, because at the end of the day - share price MUST go up. I know Merkle has similar incentives due to private investors, and the fact that social networks must grow to be successful - but it definitely experiences less of this pressure compared to META, SNAP, etc…

Maybe slow qDAU growth is a feature not a bug. 15 years from now, I’d like to confidently encourage my children to use a client on Farcaster not Instagram, assuming it continues down the same path.

Maybe sometimes, slow acceleration builds a product that is much more meaningful, lawful, and lasting than the alternative. Just zoom out.

Maybe an opportunity for a new client?
It's unsurprising and exciting to see common threads of focus shifting towards the systems that enable people to become high quality contributors.

Being systematic about addressing the practical needs of normal users will go a long way towards getting high quality results!

https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x109da0c3

https://warpcast.com/polluterofminds/0x755d55e9
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds·15:30 14/03/2025
Bro just wrote a best seller and then gave it away for free.

Here's the only "web3 partnerships handbook" you'll need to succeed in today's world.
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Ξ2T 🏰
@earth2travis·16:17 14/03/2025
Added some Partnerships Best Practices from the show notes in the thread below
These are the important questions to ask about incentive mechanisms.

I wrote about ways to better monetize user behavior in more web3 value-aligned ways in my article about the attention economy.

I feel like we're getting close with the way this airdrop model is being described.

I labeled it advertisers in the image, but the concept applies to devs and brands as a whole:

Users generate valuable data. They can opt in to monetize that data and receive airdrops that are highly targeted to their specific interests and needs. Users and brands that behave in non-aligned ways lose out on value capture.

I think there's a few things missing still (privacy), but it's an interesting iterative step forward.

https://paragraph.xyz/@trigs/the-attention-economy
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/72aaf067-1a9b-4511-6636-42c833db1f00/original
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I feel like crypto wallets and passkeys and identity management all merging is the UX unlock we need to make the next step forward as a digital society.

Shazow is totally correct in my view: they are all in the same overlap of security and usability needs.
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Very interested in checking out @alvesjtiago.eth's @fiids alt client.

Multiple customizable feeds? ☑️
View feed as someone else? ☑️
Add/Remove channels to a single feed? ☑️
Custom search filters? ☑️
Custom Onchain notifs? ☑️
RSS feeds?! ☑️
OTHER SOCIAL GRAPHS? ☑️

This is worth a Pro sub trial.

Shameless referral:
https://hypersub.xyz/s/fiids-pro-1oflapdrup3i8?referrer=0x87ece9936ad2254d03af83958fe3b202dc79793f
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a19426d7-5988-4c98-fd3d-e40d64532100/original
The purple app is good for positivity!

Good people, good ideas, good vibes!
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There are some hidden gems out here in Farcaster land if you know where to look!

Looking forward to this one!
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This photo popping up on my memories today was timely after yesterday's post about creating green spaces.

Another green space I made at my previous house!

Gardens are great, and I love growing food! But sometimes you just need a soft green space to relax and let the doggies cool off!
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a5dc07f5-6ecd-487a-b7cc-d462021f3600/original
How do you incentivize quality content creation if rewarding a metric makes the metric the target?

Brings me back to @danicaswanson's thoughts on systemic quality. Throwing money at the problem doesn't scale, so what's next? What systems are necessary to support content creation (assuming all of this is in service of creating sustainable funding)?

- cozy corners: while there may be a range of sizes, most corners only stay cozy if they maintain some form of exclusive characteristic, even if just a self-selecting one

- on/offboarding: the more easily ppl can come and go and stay caught up with the meta, the more engaged they can be

- community knowledge & reputation: in order for members to maintain a sense of individual value in a growing community there needs to be residual community knowledge that stays surfaced about contributions, as well as persistent reputation about accomplishments within the community

https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x109da0c3
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What other projects are pushing the boundaries of channels besides @cura and @farcastlexyz ??
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Anyone have other examples of good social graph bootstrap strategies to compare?
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Been thinking about this and I think this is where Warpcast shines. It still has good community vibes. So many new ppl have been commenting on the warm welcomes and the positive attitudes.

We still have builder vibes!

I have two ruminations on this:

1. I bet when ppl "check back in" during these little windows, those vibes will leave an impression. The kind of vibes where the people building the very app we're using are engaging with live feedback, right in the feed. When they go back to their stale, lifeless algorithm fed rage bait circle jerk, they'll miss those builder vibes.

2. Cozy corners and builder vibes only scale if we grow horizontally as well as vertically. Communities have to grow wider, and start to create corners of their own, before the general common area gets overrun with traffic that crushes the space with noise.

The scaling problem is a ways out, but the sooner we start iterating, the faster we will build retention.
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The most clear answer that all us sphincter clenchers needed to resolve this fomo:

- if you're gonna spend the warps in like 1-2 weeks, ok maybe keep them.

- you can just buy them back whenever you need them. Nothing to gain holding them.

So, spend em or cash them out. It's that simple folks. (Why did we make it so hard on ourselves? 🤣)
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Rate my setup
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/3ded55da-f7da-404b-5438-6a27f1324400/original
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This kind of user testing and feedback is what makes building in public so powerful.

Web2 companies pay out the ass for this kind of data.

Now we just need the service that issues permanent, sovereign reputation for everyone who contributes value in this medium!
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Absolutely the model I subscribe to:

Nich use case definition for potential Blockchain application that:

- Users want b/c they solve real problems
- Users would pay for b/c they provide real value
- People are excited about b/c they push the space forward

By defining these use cases we create new narrative potential for people to organically get behind and start building towards without strict control over who has economic access to experimentation.

Unleash creativity!

Follow the thread for more examples.
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One thing about dogs is that they understand the importance of a good butt scratch for your daily mental health management.

Do everyone a favor and go (consensually) scratch a dog-butt today!
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/171c7c9d-a7a0-4fa5-a148-e071fd048b00/original
Warpcast home feed is completely cooked right now w/ X down.
"the next big unlocks will likely come from folks who have not yet discovered blockchain, particularly as we enter the era of apps, composability & creativity"

Ppl keep forgetting that we're only building the primitives and protocols that *enable* the experimentation that will unlock the future of tech.

We're not building the future directly. Nobody in this space has a clue what ppl actually want. We just know we need to build things that enable ppl to create their own future without selling themselves to centralized overlords.
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Going fast is only fun when the crash doesn't kill you.

Any experienced car builder will tell you: upgrade the brakes before you upgrade the engine.
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Touching grass is recommended by 10/10 dogs.

Regular dog sponsored PSA to get out there and find your green spaces!
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/0716f891-9760-4eb6-f5a8-0daf94986b00/original
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Can I quote cast my own green space? 🤣
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Seeing lots of ppl talking about green spaces and touching grass today...

Spent the last year cultivating my own slice of heaven with this grassy green space right out my back door!

Lots of work to do still, but at least have a nice little section to enjoy some escape!
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/1d955d1d-3f4e-41e3-2b44-8a924f958b00/original
Learning curve is high when self custodying your own social graph.

If you aren't personally archiving your history, your casts don't stick around!
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A pivotal look at the core issues we're facing when trying to tackle the question of *incentivizing quality*.

Controversial take in today's world:

Focus on what the systems we design produce, not the individuals.

To me this is all about behavioral economics- builders owning the responsibility to examine the social impact their apps and incentives produce.

In order for web3 to succeed, we have to accept that we are building social change not just technological change. If we don't do it intentionally, we will just end up with more efficient versions of what's been done in the past.
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Is it just me or did Warpcast DC's switch from long press to double tap to bring up the emoji/reply options?

Spent the last month thinking my mobile client was broken only to discover I have to double tap now...
Found this legendary looking old Liberty blueberry at a nursery while picking up a new peach tree.

Definitely wasn't gonna let this pass by. Love Liberty berries! They are very floral, a unique flavor profile for blueberries.

Spring is coming! Time to plant trees!
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/c19fac6c-de6e-44c3-04bf-17308c4c3c00/original
The Borg Assimilation is a fun experiment in FID security best practices and how signers work.

Check thread for more details!
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You don't even have to pay me to recast this. It's just that cool!

Loving the progress on this app. With interesting integrations like @alvesjtiago.eth is working on, you can already see the power of this tool in creating a trust network out of an open social graph like Farcaster.
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What a day to be alive!
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