I'm really proud that ethereum does not have any culture of trying to prevent people from speaking their minds, even when they have very negative feelings toward major things in the protocol or ecosystem.

Some wave the ideal of "open discourse" as a flag, some take it seriously.

Having participated in dozens of (non-crypto) communities, my personal opinion is ethereum is about average, though definitely a lot better than other crypto. The area with a very large scope for improvement, is in "open discourse" of subjective matters.

Having participated in dozens of (non-crypto) communities, my personal opinion is ethereum is about average, though definitely a lot better than other crypto. The area with a very large scope for improvement, is in "open discourse" of subjective matters.

https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x7cb27023

Yes! I felt we'd gotten too deep into ultrasound sound money theory and made some threads about it. And the response was: "Stick to technical content because it's harder to change people's philosophy." Which didn’t sound right. It was the same when I argued to admit problems with rollup scaling.

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Well, I may or may not have described ultrasound money as a cause that's slowly turning into cult (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yEjaj7PWacno5EvWa/every-cause-wants-to-be-a-cult). I believe most people ignored it, but at least "cause that can become a cult" may have made an impression on someone.

A couple of years ago I was a vocal critic of the ultrasoundmoney meme. That's an example of where I don't think anyone "prevented me from speaking my mind", but also, there was not enough "open discourse" - it was kinda ignored. I feel the same way right now about my last few blog posts about strict global consensus.