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When people own their own content, including its data and metadata, they own its distribution as well. They become the new intermediaries.  People become the new platforms.

We have become conditioned to accept that viciously tearing down complete strangers online is normal and admirable, and that it is right and proper for a bad tweet from decades ago to ruin someone’s life. A new vocabulary – “doom-scrolling!” “hate-reading!” – is now necessary to capture how dysfunctional online activity has become.

Braintrust doesn’t pay customer acquisition costs in cash, but it does pay them in tokens. That increases circulating supply. As long as Connectors are willing to accept BTRST tokens for their referrals, the system works; but increase circulating supply too much, too fast, the tokens become worthless, and Connectors stop connecting. It’s a delicate... See more

I'm even self conscious now about the difference between only hitting "send" after a paragraph, and between hitting "send" after each individual line of text

Why start a fund?