Beyond Just Tokens: Community Legos

Stadiums are cool to browse and standardization is convenient, but the formula has its limits when it comes to addressing the long tail of non-stadium communities.

"It is a fact of life that marketplaces have to commoditize the workers and inventory to a certain extent in order to function as a marketplace, to make it easier for consumers to search, reduce cost of search. Everybody on substack is commoditized." - Li jin observes

But as Toby Shorin puts it "unique functionality and bespoke interfaces provide distinct advantages that off-the-shelf tooling can never achieve.".