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status is relative and qualitative, rather than determined and quantitative, it may be possible to create communities that not only reward the greatest contributors but give everyone status in ways that can never be properly compared. In a division of labor, who is to say that the programmer is more valuable than the artist, or vice-versa, if we... See more

We recognized that there is nothing wrong with curating a crowd for a social club or an organization based on shared interests, motivations, identities, and yes, even ability to pay.

Creators are still not fully compensated for their efforts, making it very difficult for them to build a stable income.

Mirror started to look like yet another crypto project that claimed to be democratizing something through decentralization, but was actually exacerbating, as Will Gottsegen cleverly put it, a sort of "clout inequality," elevating the cool kids of crypto above others.

Run lean, and persevere. If Dune’s burn rate had been higher, the company almost certainly would have failed in the dead of crypto winter. Instead, founders Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen spent conservatively, giving them the chance to flourish in better conditions.

I think there’s a diff between “content moderation” and setting expectations for civil interactions. Like a platform finding ways to encourage ppl to be civil to each other isn’t censorship, to me (done well, they should barely notice you’re even doing it). And I think that DOES, or at least can, fall in the purview of what a platform should be... See more

What’s so interesting about the Dolly Parton Challenge is how it conveys something that everyone implicitly understands: we all have disparate identities across the internet.