María Paula
@mariapaula
Lots has happened since I last posted here. TLDR, bullish things happening on Lens - testnet shipped, social features unveiled. Graphs became a primitive, build your own, or leverage the global one. We want to give people freedom and enhance healthy competition. https://x.com/LensProtocol/status/1859196482139853068
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glbkst
@glbkst
Only how i see it, but i think both lens and also warpcast failed to grow users in a sustainable way. And an one-time paywall might even increase the number of bots and not decreasing it ? And if network effects kick-in, which might be rn the case on bluesky do some maybe better features of other apps matter? Probably not. It didn't looked like it only a few months ago, i tried bluesky and it didn't felt much used. It also had no video support. Maybe one will never know, why bluesky "won", but currently it seems to. The main issue here is, that there exist at least 3 decentral protocols: lens, farcaster and AT/bluesky but each has it's own accounts like Threads or X. And interestingly Threads didn't seem to have a real big benefit using the Instagram accounts. Which leads to the obvious question if many users care a lot about this. Sure large accounts might care about loosing followers or it only makes bot followers visible?
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María Paula
@mariapaula
I think assuming failure at such an early stage is not really a thing. Lens is an immature product still, about to become a network with social features. I agree with you, the bot issue is quite annoying, but honestly, its also bad on Twitter and web2 social at large, we'll have to learn to coexist. There are many cool things about the Lens social features that might poise Lens as a catalyser for real adoption. But we just shipped testnet, too early to tell. As for Bluesky winning, I'm into it. It's good tech and as long as Twitter dies, I'm happy no matter who's the killer.
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