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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I've been using "wordsmith" professionally but maybe I'll consider switching to "word-slinger."

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The nagging feeling we should reciprocate when we aren’t in a position to reciprocate. This is why I don’t have much to show for the work I’ve done over the last 4 years I’m saying this to myself as much as anyone who needs to hear it. Put the oxygen mask on yourself first. Give back in other ways. It matters I would like to see a more equitable economy in this space but it starts by setting yourself up first. When you do, don’t forget where you came from. (Rich people need not subscribe to this cast)

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Nice write-up and great topic list you collected there. "Nonrivalrous accounting ontologies" sounds particularly fascinating.

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Thanks. Feels like I'm overdue for a good stretch of smooth sailing in life. Always appreciate your support!

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If nothing else, these sorts of things really light a fire under me to find a new place to live... which I already wanted to do anyway.

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Thanks. Not the end of the world, of course. Just bad timing. I'll be glad when this stretch of life's curveballs is over.

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If *two* of my major home appliances (fridge and washer/dryer) had to malfunction and die in the same month I started a grant writing class, it sure would've been nice if it wasn't right before April 15 in a year I had procrastinated on getting my taxes done. 😩 Wish I lived close enough to family or friends that we could pitch in to help each other when life gets overloaded with time-consuming stuff to handle. Someday, hopefully. Working on it.

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Thank you for the good convos!

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if we can earn > 2k USDC in the next year from the rewards leaderboard, we will buy a dishwasher and name it Dan The Dishwasher after @dwr.eth

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If crypto wants to "onboard 1 billion users" it needs to solve the problem of funding decentralized infra at scale (both development & services). The catch is that you can only do it if the infra (a "public good") can capture value. Guess how many project in the crypto space have a roadmap to achieve this..

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Source: https://wikioo.org/en/paintings.php?refarticle=9HTLEG&titlepainting=Woman%20on%20a%20Couch&artistname=Albert%20Herter

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Mood. Can't do my usual word-slinging today, so here's some art. Albert Herter - Woman On a Couch (public domain in the US)

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Preach! Love it when you write things like this. I spent all my braining energy on today's grant writing class so I'm too brain-dead to contribute thoughts at the level I'd like, but if nothing else I at least wanted to thank you for writing it.

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whenever I hear people say that "markets are efficient" I want to ask them how efficient is it for the economy when potential Einsteins and Feynmans work as Uber drivers instead of spending that time moving humanity (& the economy) forward? The truth is that markets are only efficient when the product people make capture value (people make money in exchange for creating value for others). But most of the things that would have the greatest impact on people's lives cannot capture value within the economic structures we have today. So Einsteins and Feynmans work as Uber drivers, waiters, or hedge fund managers. And instead of making our lives 10X better they're stuck in a system that increasingly centralizes power and control within the hands of those who play the extraction game better. This doesn't mean that the situation is hopeless by any means. It just means that we need to stop being complacent about so called "economic efficiency" and start building better systems

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I share your frustration that a lot of the time and effort community-builders have already invested has gone unrewarded. As things currently stand, founders have to pay out of pocket to cover the bootstrapping and maintenance costs of building channels that provide collective benefits to the network. That's unsustainable. But my reading of where Merkle stands is different. I think the team recognizes the level of work channel operators do, and ultimately they'd like to see economic models in the Farconomy to support that labor. However, they're not prioritizing channels (since in their current format they don't grow qDAU), so it doesn't make sense for channel-builders to invest the time in building them. At least not on Warpcast. There's some hope for mini-apps/mini-clients, but there's still a lot of work to do there. The irony is that channels *could* grow qDAU to a level that would move the needle! But to do that we'd need the right tools, designs, and incentives, and those are all hard problems.

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Good question. The Library at LessWrong comes to mind as one site that caters to deep-dive reading and commenting effectively. https://www.lesswrong.com/library I've been batting around ideas with @trigs and @wanderloots.eth in DCs about building a mini-app that could help propagate a curated selection of the group's long-form discussions via Obsidian pages, so we're definitely thinking along similar lines.

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Agreed that the problem isn't unwillingness to do the work of building channels, but a lack of the right tools (and incentives). I wrote about the situation for my channels/communities in another thread: https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x8dcd3d4a

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Are Channels Still the Future of Farcaster? (🧵) I used to think so. Now? Not so sure. Back in April 2024, spam was everyone’s problem on Farcaster. Then the channel overhaul happened and shifted the spam burden to hosts. If your channel is full of spam, it’s on you: Gate better. Moderate harder. Ban faster. It’s exhausting and most channel hosts have ignored it or automated it, confusing new folks and aggravating old ones who can’t cast into channels freely. Fast forward to April 2025: spammers got smarter. The current model aggressively flags most users as low-value. 80% of casts are orphaned—no replies, no recasts, no likes. Worse, casting into channels doesn’t trigger spam labels, which flipped the whole dynamic and spammers gravitate to casting into some channels hoping for visibility.

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Indeed. Channel builders are builders!

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