erica
@erica
every human has a finite amount of attention to give every day a like is a reflex. it has the lowest activation energy past scrolling itself. and yet only 5-20% of social media users like content. on speculative platforms, every piece of content offers a financial choice, a calculation. potential cost vs potential gain. a social feed becomes a feed of financial decisions. energy wanes, attention fractures. how many times a day can you weigh the current market cap and try to predict the future attention on each piece of content you see before deciding to buy or scroll to the next? there's a reason social behemoths are all built upon a design hyperoptimized to reduce friction as a ux person, i love experimentation. but what exact hypotheses are we working on here? who are we building for? it’s certainly not the billions of humans effortlessly scrolling instagram and twitter and tossing a like here and there
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links 🏴
@links
Aren’t you building a product that aims to maximize user attention? Thats what VC-backed social products ARE, aren’t they?
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shairaaa
@shairaaa
Tossing a reply here. But I guess some people keep on building to satisfy themselves while the satisfaction from others is just a plus.
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Koolkheart
@koolkheart.eth
This is the kind of insight we need more of in web3. If we want mass adoption, we can’t turn every tap into a transaction. Love that you called out the activation energy of a like. People underestimate how much friction matters in scale
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Rose
@rosekeyes
The amount of income is different in each platform, maybe one day Warpcast will become one of the top platforms and people will be able to make a lot of money on it.
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tomato
@tomatoxyz
Certainly true. I'm pretty sure besides likes that platform algorithms are also informed/trained differently based on the device used - I don't think it was even possible to like a YT video from a TV until fairly recently.
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dok
@dok8
Can we have both? One that is meant to be endless consumption where you are purely the product of traditional web2 tech companies. Another, where it is much more like an infinite 2way market for those that want skin in the game at all times while in those arenas? I still want to scroll YT shorts for laughs and wtv, without looking for a return, meanwhile, when I am locked in other platforms, I am genuinely looking for alpha, aiming to support, spend and engage in a totally different manner.
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christin
@christin
I toss a like and a reply
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triumph
@triumph
tossing a like, reply + recast xoxoxo
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yerbearserker.base.eth 🧉🎯
@yerbearserker
There's also an issue here of the amount of interaction required to maintain mindshare/relational position, energy going into posts etc, that quickly dissipate downstream with very little stickiness/limited curation. Channels currently don't seem to serve to provide those places, and thus it can feel like a lot of comment/post/interaction time is quickly blown to the wind, vs accumulating into a large store of value...
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