Danica Swanson

@danicaswanson

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Deep Worth is a journal project on the worth of creative labor, and an inquiry into sustainable funding patterns for the work of those who practice art forms. It features four new writings by yours truly: - What Is Deep Worth? - How Did Deep Worth Get Started? - Why Am I Writing On Notion? - Is Creative Work Ever “Free”? The project is Farcaster-seeded — it's a liminal space of open-ended inquiry, spawned via a thoughtful group chat of about 30 people, with ample room for the FC scenius to shape its direction. I'll be maintaining an ongoing journal of informal writings and snippet collections there (including uploads of selected material from my "professional anticareerist" era). Looking forward to seeing what's next. https://deepworth.notion.site

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LFG. The value prop seems clear to me. I love making money on FC, and I love making friends too. No reason we can't do both at the same time. If it turns out I'm eventually able to turn my FC activity (such as maintenance labor and mod duties for group chats + channels) into a *sustainable* livelihood, that will free me up to spend much more time creating content here. That's what I'd like to do anyway, and it's something no other social media platform offers to creators like me with modest followings.

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The AI-only summary is worth a recast too, though I still prefer a more personal touch for announcing a piece like this.

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Looks like there's a lenticular cloud over Mt. Hood this morning. It's days like this that I wish I had decent photography skills. (If anyone got a photo, please share!)

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There are some old casts that should not be left to fade away or "expire" because they are community memories, and therefore worth revisiting. That's why I saved so many of them and added all those links to this story. 💜

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To mark the one-year anniversary of @edit's arrival on Farcaster (Jan. 21, 2024), I wrote a tale for the lore-books about his community-driven onboarding and our permissionless writer-artist collaborations. Happy anniversary, @edit! Your kind heart and your many contributions to the Farcaster ecosystem are much appreciated. cc @sa @markfishman @mc @ispeaknerd.eth @nounishprof @aaronrferguson https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/onboarding-edit-to-farcaster

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Happy one-year anniversary on Farcaster! We love you @edit!!

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OK, Kristin's adorable pic convinced me to play "post a pic of you from a different era" too. This is from the late 1990s.

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Fans of @edit may want to keep an eye out for a special blog post I'll be publishing within the next 24 hours to celebrate the one-year anniversary of his onboarding to Farcaster on Jan. 21, 2024.

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Channel update: We're putting the /blxstonesnctuary channel into temporary hibernation while we think through how to better allocate our time (IRL, online, and onchain) for this project. Black Stone Sanctuary is still alive and well otherwise. We'll continue to publish posts on Paragraph. (Link in bio).

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Fellow word nerds: the /words channel is being resurrected, including the weekly prompts for people to answer questions and tell their stories. Give it a follow if you haven't already, and consider contributing some words of your own to the mix.

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I've been trying to do this live-near-friends thing for over 20 years and still haven't succeeded. Glad to see it's getting some good press these days that doesn't gloss over how difficult it is to pull it off. In 2005-2006 I was involved with an intentional community founders group. We bought land, built one small structure, and were looking at tiny houses (hard to find back then!)... but then the whole effort collapsed on the launching pad. I've lived solo ever since. But now that I have *three* dear friends living in Eugene, OR, a city I know well and hope to move back to, I hope I'll get another chance someday. The regulatory climate in Oregon (re: residential infill, ADUs, tiny houses, cottage clusters, etc.) is so much better than it was back then. Good reading on the Live Near Friends blog for those interested. https://blog.livenearfriends.com/

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Dear Warpcast algo: Let it be known that I'd like to see every single cast from the /ambient channel in my following feed. Every. Single. Cast. I'm a member of the channel. I've casted there fairly often. I like and comment on casts there. It's one of the rare channels that most closely matches my niche interests. I've been a dark ambient music nerd for 25+ years. I published an 8500-word interview with a dark ambient musician less than a month ago, ffs. But every time I visit the channel I see casts that did not appear in my feed. What do I have to do to see those casts?!?

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "Insofar as external recognition feels like a tailwind, it is to the same degree a straight-jacket. As soon as thinking aloud becomes dopaminergic, thinking aloud starts optimizing for dopamine. The mind can hardly do otherwise; it is an unconscious dynamic that is, to a certain degree, irreducible. Once thinking starts optimizing for dopamine, it starts optimizing for positive social feedback, which means it enters the gravity well of popular opinion, which guarantees a long-term endpoint other than objective truth... falling too far into this gravity well is nothing short of doom, for it takes away the only edge that honest and patient thinkers have ever enjoyed: that Truth is always unpopular and difficult, but therefore scarce and hard to fake." ~ Justin Murphy, "The Time to Withdraw"

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Fair question. TBH I'm not even sure the WC algo will help feed you even when you feed it handsomely first.

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Appreciate it! Not sure the algo agrees. Seems like engagement on my casts has dropped significantly in recent months. Not a problem tho because group chats are going great. :)

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"I want artists to feel like an audience or an institution has their back enough to dive into their art, disappear for a while, and return with something that will rewire all of our brains. We need econ models for that. [...] "My desire is to ensure the next Arthur Russell can make art without checking stats hourly." ~ Mat Dryhurst https://x.com/matdryhurst/status/1265060438556979203

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"...it's a perceived value issue we collectively need to address." 🎯 Louder for the people in the back, plz.

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I enjoyed the /words channel the most during the time when people were telling their stories in response to great prompts. Let's help resurrect the channel!

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Recommended read: "Why The Community Is Not the Product" by @beylin is an unflinching look at how token incentives can crowd out intrinsic motivation in communities. I've come to similar conclusions via a different route. The author doesn't mince words: "I will state plainly that if you’re building a community and intend to use a token to try and introduce extrinsic incentives, you will likely fail, and your community will eventually die (albeit perhaps extremely slowly, sustained by the energy of token holders who are incentivized to believe a dream which cannot ever be true)." [...] "In the absence of intrinsic motivation you have something else… like a company, a non profit, an ecosystem, an economy... But without intrinsic motivation, I would argue that by definition you do not have a community." https://m.mirror.xyz/GNrZCiNqsf23JBLF3e4fwKxO4UmLa8t5SwQYDuOqcdc

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