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All these things used to be separated into public media (like visual or print communications made by a small group of professionals) and personal media (like letters and phone calls made by ordinary citizens). Now those two modes have fused.

As communities grow, so too does their need for moderation to ensure that content does not become toxic. In communities where moderation is vital, like group therapy, these solutions can augment human moderators and allow services and platforms to scale. AI-based moderation is rarely cost-effective for a platform to build in-house.

There's been a major breakthrough in gaming due to the free-to-play games like League of Legends and Fortnite which act more like platforms, instead of $60/piece one time purchases. Low computational needs – you don’t need a gaming PC to play them.

As we expand social networks into new dimensions, it's clear the social and gaming are colliding.

Another example: Ben Thompson, creator of the Stratechery newsletter

Most people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true for physical energy, but mental energy is different: spending mental energy on things that you consider productive or important gives you more mental energy for other things: a positive feedback loop.

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-We can take context from one app to another, which creates a shared pool of state online. However, in web3 world, because the context is at the wallet-level, which is global and not tied to any specific piece of software, anything that happens on-chain is shared with everyone. Let's say that REI wants to create a limited edition tent that is speci... See more