Lately, I've been more active on Bluesky (different topic, different anon), and it's growing pretty fast. Given Elon has oriented Twitter towards anti-intellectualism, certain communities have moved wholesale already, particularly academia related. It's basically just Twitter without the bloat, but slower still... Farcaster is more interesting to me, but Bluesky has won the attention game - no one knows Farcaster exists outside the niche crypto crowd.

bluesky is just a different in/out group, same anti-intellectualism and partisan politics just in the opposite direction

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polynya being Bluesky maxi says a lot about ETH culture

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Firstly, I don't own any ETH, not sure what "ETH culture" is 

Secondly, I literally said in the cast I'm more interested in Farcaster than Bluesky

Vitalik has called you a "long-time Ethereum philosopher"

not sure of anyone else he has called a literal Ethereum philosopher, so I think it's reasonable to say you have shaped Ehtereum's culture

and I'm using maxi in the tongue-in-cheek crypto sense, not literally

Vitalik still the clear leader of the culture, if he considers you influential everyone else will too

and overall I think most of Ethereum's community is much less degenerate than you make it out to be, or at the very least the level of degeneracy you are mad about is simply the baseline that should be expected in any open financial system so getting mad at it or trying to "fix" it doesn't make much sense

it's actually a similar argument to the Twitter/Bluesky debate over civility and free speech on the internet

when you go down the path of trying to moderate all the bad things away as a social media platform you get bogged down in subjective debates and it takes away from the core mission of providing a good human communication tool

Twitter takes the path of focusing on the app and not worrying about a ton of moderation 

Bluesky goes moderation-heavy to create a "higher quality" place for discussion but at what cost of scope creep into the subjective matter of deciding what is or is not moral?

Well, that's just Vitalik's opinion, I don't think anyone else has called me that. All of my writings have been about tech and applications, and how to make the best of blockchain tech. The only time I've talked about anything culture related is being against too much degeneracy and bigotcoins, or against scammers, but obviously ethereum users and ethereum culture in general disagree with me given degeneracy is still a massive part of Ethereum