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I find the backlash to the new Zora model quite fascinating. When NFT’s first became popular, many people advanced the same criticisms. They weren’t real art, they overly financialized something that shouldn’t have a price on it, etc Now, four years later we have learned a lot. It’s time for new experiments. But it’s weird to see NFTs being held up as some bastion of artistic purity.

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I don’t see much backlash to the model itself tbh Moreso towards the rhetoric and the way people are talking about it

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I think Zora has done a poor job communicating their systemic changes. They removed the ability to control supply & duration (unilaterally, without artist control or input). Then they opened a secondary market at low price point, again, without giving the artists on the platform already (The current users) any choice. Now, they've shifted towards being a content exchange, rather than a smart contract producer for art. Not saying the new model is bad, merely that by going from art-centric to content-centric, without communicating this to the current and new users, a lot of people feel betrayed and distrustful of this new 'memecoin' era of art.

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@aaronrferguson

Definitely a well established pattern of big changes, no choice for users, and no communication.

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Yep. Feels like their sights are set on the next generation, rather than the current one https://warpcast.com/cassie/0x35e93c59

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I don't work for Zora, and I quit Coinbase because I disagreed with the idea of Base as an OP fork L2, let alone being attached to Ethereum.

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Oh yes, I didn’t think you worked for Zora :) just thought your comment was relevant to the protocol shift we’re seeing here and fits with the narrative of abandoning the people that propped them up, in favour of the next group of transactors

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@aaronrferguson

Deprecates is different than abandons in this context though ;-)

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Is it though? deprecation is the removal of features/access to promote the new, trying to incentivize the previous user base to move to the new system I feel like they’re the same in this case

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@aaronrferguson

What I mean is that I don’t think anyone currently feeling abandoned (yet again) by Zora is going to feel similarly due to Cassie’s efforts

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Ah I feel there was a misunderstanding, I was saying I agree with her comment in response to the coinbase cast Not that I thought she was doing anything wrong, but that I thought her comment also applied to Zora in the same way it did to coinbase

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@aaronrferguson

Probably my bad, just getting over a cold here and am wiped 😂

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I think I might have confused @cassie too, so I think it was me :) too much time spent discussing art v content haha Hope you feel better soon!

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