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Sunny
@sunnysangwan
I've been a part of the art community for 2.5 years on X & now here for a few months, & I can tell you with certainty that artists on @farcaster are at a crossroads. Best case 1: There's some foundational shift where the fc ecosystem elevates these "quality content" creators & they can have a meaningful existence here. Best Case 2: They go explore Lens or maybe back to X (where despite the algo, they get some recognition for their art from their peers). Worst case: They get disenchanted with web3 altogether because they've been scammed, rugged, ignored, reduced to a number & pretty much treated like second class citizens regardless of where they exist. I worry about this the most. Irony 1: The art community is the most vibrant community any social community can have. We literally have generational talent hanging out amongst us & most of us are unaware. Irony 2: Artists who are here are the most tech forward of the normie bunch we'd wanna onboard. Biggest assets for any social platform. 1/2 🧵
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@angadbsodhi
Seriously resonate with a lot of what you’ve said on this thread Sunny. I also feel like the way things are going, art has almost been institutionally channeled into “content” where it is soon going to be in a similar situation to web2 social media. The rewards and incentives artists got initially for keeping their unlimited/open edition mints to below a dollar was a great move to generate more unique mints ie higher volumes for platforms. But at the same time, they reduced the actual value of the art and likened collecting art to (pardon the pun) a “like” from web2 social media. A win for the platform. Crumbs for the artist. The equation for artists is far heading to: Web2 social media = Web3 social media. And in the absence of art, a lot of these platforms may as well be GitHub or Reddit forums.
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@sunnysangwan
I understand where you're coming from but think of it this way, a like has literally no value in web2, but in web3 it has some. Maybe 10 "likes" doesn't mean much but what about 1K, 10K or 100K likes? We're in the beginning stages of a paradigm shift and paradigm shifts take some time.
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