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Does Real Identity Matter for Networks?
For a network, one way to make for a good newcomer experience is to have a “ranked” experience where they are exposed to or interact with a subset of the entire graph. For example, a sub-reddit instead of everyone competing with everyone else on Reddit.
Sriram Krishnan • Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto
Building a signal-legitimized network isn’t necessarily about curating the best individual posts that appear in a feed. It’s about signaling the most reputable and valuable people that participate in the network. The network gains legitimacy not by a centralized algorithm showing you what’s most popular, but by the participants themselves provably ... See more
Kiran Cherukuri • Internet Cities & The Social Uniswap
Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)a16zcrypto.com
Public identity equates to discoverability, trustworthiness, influence, power, agency. It’s a form of social capital—and sometimes financial capital—that can help you move more productively through the world.
Greg Beato • Superagency
The bottom line: Moving identity on-chain, and thereby removing the possibility of users-table-centric network effects, completely up-ends the entire landscape of API-based, access-controlled interoperability that the present Internet is built on. All of the non-technical market and political dynamics around users table size, leverage, and risk sud... See more