Ben Rubin

@benrbn

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Discord just announced it's de-prioritizing generic community software and doubling down on gaming. Big opportunity for crypto-native social apps. https://discord.com/blog/discords-next-chapter

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FIT21 just passed in the House of Representatives. Here’s what it is about, why it matters, and what you can still do to help it become law: 🔖: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/fit21-why-it-matters-what-to-do/

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This conversation moderated by @jasonr covers @benrbn's journey of building Meerkat, Houseparty, and now HNT, as well as his unique perspective on creating company culture, and the path to finding product-market fit. https://youtu.be/LZzV1R0kZJQ?feature=shared

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CSX Day 1: @jasonr: PMF is like playing poker. Achieving it is like winning hand - it gives optionality. @benrbn: Devil in the details, God in the defaults. What's cool for users? Dinner: "Are you on Farcaster?" in almost every convo paired with "This is how $degen works"

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unfortunately we won't be able to stick with matrix (despite our hopes) it assumes that all nodes are trusted. that won’t work for a decentralized protocol. many contributions by HNT to the project got merged & even more (around that topic) hv been effectively rejected. so we moved to forge our own future

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People can build their own clients. Ours will be soon open sourced. Communities can program their townsquares dynamics since primitives like read/write entitlements, moderation and ownership are secured on chain via upgradable smart contracts. Each town is its own smart contract. That part is actually live now

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@nicole working on it!

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Thank you Dan!!

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I agree too many centralized copies with sign in with wallet. I think the approach of figuring how to make it decentralized is where all the heavy lifting is.

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