Web3 will be defined by “token effects” and not traditional network effects.
What does that mean? Token-based projects have a better shot at building powerful and useful networks that are user-owned and operated.
(visualized brilliantly by @LeConcurrential)
Despite the superior product experience and the explosive growth of market participants, the liberty of a curious learner extends only as far as the palms of the invisible hands of market demand. The opportunity cost of sitting through an 80-hour course load is the ability to spend it on hacking the game directly.
DeSo is custom-built from the ground up to power social applications, and that means that all of the data that it stores and indexes follows a known schema. Profiles are stored and indexed differently than posts, which are stored and indexed differently than follows, etc... This level of customization not only makes storage costs 10,000x cheaper... See more