I wrote a little piece in the NYT on how social media is now finally exciting after many years and moving to decentralization and one I hope involves credibly neutral, censorship and centralization resistant mechanisms. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/opinion/social-media-threads-twitter-reddit.html

so good yes yes yes, love the Farcaster shout out. What are your thoughts on the economics, is advertising still the driver?

I hope not though I think advertising will always have a place online.

Agree - Connie Chan breaks down (previous gen) move away from advertising. https://youtu.be/b-RS5vpS_0s. Trend in east now emerging in west - Twitter rewards and TikTok tipping.

Keeping an eye out on Asia web3 adoption, some early signs from Galxe and Cyberconnect.

Oh, this is from a design conference! AI bring web3 (crypto with incentives) to the forefront. Verifiable credentials also matter.