We are living in exciting, critical times; somewhere between Renaissance and Revolution. While the world is reshaping, most are flipping JPGs and trading sh*tcoins. (Not the '1337' crowd on FC so much, obviously...)

one33seven is building a crypto culture collective based on the fundamental principles of crypto.

Making connections. Making meaning.

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Feels strange rehashing the Twitter post for FC, because it feels like it doesn't have to be explained on here.. but anyway, here goes:

Guessing not everyone (even on here) knows about "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow from 1996

https://www.eff.org/de/cyberspace-independence

If we rely solely on these centralized oversized corporations, we run the danger of ending up somewhere we don't want to end up.

Google quietly removed their motto in 2018.

It was replaced with "do the right thing" at Alphabet. The original motto was more concrete.

Protocols like FC are on the forefront of thinking differently. (Thank you for that!)

Web3 / crypto is a rare second chance to build a truly open internet. It is one of the most important things in the world, and the window to act is closing by the day. Soon, it will be too late.

Most don't realize this danger.

It sounds dramatic, because it is.
We must *try* to reclaim and secure our freedom.

6529er put it pretty well: [We need to ensure] 'That we don't sleepwalk into a panopticon society controlled by a handful of people with "God view" of a big data, machine-learning enabled system.'

Actually, going to break this up differently; into single posts. Writing threads here is weird (maybe that's a good thing and by design?)...

Full "original" Thread is on the Bird-App... https://twitter.com/one33seven_/status/1655225287880380417

Contrary to the vision, Web2 brought forward corporations which are bigger and hold more power than many governments. Although some of them started out with the right motto; "Don't be evil" (Google), they are centralized entities, which are a single point of failure.