Danica Swanson

@danicaswanson

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I wrote about why I think system conditions matter more than individual performance in producing quality writing, and why CLPs (conversational liquidity providers) on FC are underserved. Inspired by "Quality is Systemic," a great blog post by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, and by the members of the Return On Attention group chat. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/quality-writing-is-systemic

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You're probably familiar with network effects and public goods, but what about symbiotic goods? These resources have "anti-rival" properties—meaning benefits scale along with broader use Ethereum users benefit as more integrate its standards, eg. tokens, the EVM, ETH 🔊 on:

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ngl, when I scroll the photo heavy channels and see an amazing photo (that looks professional or would be very difficult to take) I assume it’s stolen from the internet now. If you are a pro/semi pro photographer and you are new here, consider linking to your work in your bio. The incentives to farm engagement in certain channels are just too high and I refuse to believe there are suddenly hundreds of new photographers showing up who don’t put any mention of their portfolio or minted work in their profile.

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It starts with people actually choosing to support the cultural producers instead anything else

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less content creators, more cultural producers; less influencers, more community builders; less viral bubbles, more meaningful movements; less algorithm chasing, more context shaping; less digital noise, more cultural resonance, less light content, more dense media.

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My thoughts exactly. Really looking forward to this frame.

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I like these unflinching, thoughtful, well-written takes. We need more of this kind of critical thinking in crypto. Brings to mind something else I just read in my feed: "crypto is a meat grinder of broken dreams" ~ @kenny

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Of all the frames I've seen here so far, this is the one I'm most excited about: a daily pattern from A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. Can't wait to try it out! Surely it won't be much longer before we see frames for delivering curated Quote of the Day selections too, right?

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I'll probably cast occasional updates as I progress with the course, but I'll keep the details fairly vague in public. Feel free to DC me if you have specific questions about the course, though. I'm curious too. If you'd like to say more, how did you get started in grant writing?

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Another journalist who recently realized it's possible to earn rewards for casting. Farcaster loves journalists. We need more of them here. Toward that end, let's give this account a warm welcome with more likes and recasts. The weekly Warpcast rewards go out tomorrow...

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I appreciate that, Trish. Of all the people I've met and worked with through the purple app, you're probably the one who's most familiar with what it means for me to commit to this new direction, and why I have mixed feelings about it. The program I'm enrolling in is focused on the PNW and Oregon specifically. So it's conceivable that if I'm able to make connections with nonprofits located in Eugene, I may be able to improve my chances of moving there in the not-too-distant future. Might be a long shot, but stranger things have happened.

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"How often do you seed vs water vs harvest conversation liquidity?" ~ @kbc in a great thread spawned by @adrienne's idea of Warpcast rewards based on a "conversational liquidity provider" score. Love the gardening metaphor.

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Thank you. To be clear, I still wish I could've found a sustainable way to make ends meet in the Farconomy, so I could spend more time contributing here as an essayist, channel mod, community steward, etc. I want Farcaster to succeed. But that didn't work out for me. So it's time for Plan B.

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It's real. But keep in mind that it's experimental. Right now the payouts are negligible, and it's not clear how sustainable the WC rewards will be over the long term. That said, FC loves journalists. If you find you can write here more often, you'll be warmly welcomed.

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*undercapital* Space where forms of capital and faculties of money can recombine toward expanding the virtual field. When deployed under prefigurative conditions, undercapital produces the virtual as a positive externality, enabling protocols to diminish institutional dependence

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This week I’m applying to a 10-week course for a Certificate in Grant Writing. If all goes well, I’ll transition into making a living as a freelance grant proposal writer + editor. Eventually I hope to work in crypto philanthropy for arts funding. The last time I worked with a nonprofit was at Oregon Research Institute as a psychology undergrad in the 1990s. My post-bac credentials are in philosophy and accounting. So I’ve got my work cut out for me. Copy editing is still my superpower, so I hope to keep my schedule flexible enough to take contract copy editing work. When I start the grant writing class in April, there will be a significant drop in the time I spend on the purple app. The /slowcore-hq channel I co-founded is in extended hibernation. I'll continue to steward the Return On Attention group chat with co-admin @trigs. We’ll keep a low profile until we find a suitable space to move it and an economic model for it. Any casters currently work as grant writers? I'd love to chat.

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Thank you! I didn't know that both frames and channels could be muted, and I've been wishing I could hide that stuff too. Now it's done.

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Of course. This is fantastic and well-written. The time and care you put into it is obvious. It's a service to the whole network.

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Having to keep clicking more or refocusing on a reply to see additional replies in the same thread. Feels like if I click "see more", I want it to expand the conversation thread out fully. I understand that if I want to see additional threads besides the most popular I will have to refocus the top cast. But once I'm focused on a single thread, open it wide up! I feel like a number of ppl have to be just stopping reading without realizing there's more replies after they've clicked "show more" but the conversation terminates until you refocus the top cast to the last reply to show more replies (often multiple times). Fixing that will let me close the entire thread back to the top cast in one click. Since, now, you have to refocus the top cast so many times, it takes multiple steps back to get to the feed from the bottom of a thread.

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I appreciate your explication of the CLP concept. Very nicely articulated. I agree that it's a great concept that deserves continued thought and attention. It's a fun meme and it's part of the FC scenius lore, but it's also a great reference point for discussions about what the ecosystem could do to fund writers and develop better affordances for ongoing convos.

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