There's a reason telegram mini apps mostly suck, although telegram is a protocol and has hundreds of millions of daily active human users

it's not a credibly neutral protocol, and is controlled by a for profit company with the same name

there's a lesson in there

When building web3 protocols, we should hold ourselves to a higher bar than web2 platforms - otherwise we risk just recreating the same user-misaligned incentive systems that brought us here.

"Don't be evil" is not good enough.

"Can't be evil" should be the bar.

Web2 platform's classic S-curve playbook of attract-extract is the reason I'm building in web3 and trying to contribute to protocols that replace platforms.

Unfortunately due to little user traction there's a lot of compromises being made lately, with a "trust me later, bro" attitude which I think there needs to be some pushback on from people who are volunteering and contributing to growing something they think will be a public good

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