Shower Thoughts

it’s not about content or people…

those are two sides of the same coin & we don’t get more of those coins until the ecosystem & frame hub materialize & the flywheel backfills

we already used up our allotment & they left

so it’s no longer about people or “interesting content;” it now about good tech that captures attention & spins outward into a meta

then more people come; THEN we get more content 

i don’t know why we continue to look at a crypto-native social-first platform as a “social network that normal people are going to use one day”

they are not & it is not; it’s a CRYPTO-NATIVE PLATFORM that is social-FIRST; NOT social as a core value prop

it’s about crypto, devs, tech & markets

that much is made abundantly clear right from the sign-up funnel & as result, 90%+ of normal people will never cross that bridge

further the 10% that do will immediately get hit with suggested follows… who are all crypto people… so if crypto is not their cup of tea, they are done day 1

Is it time for MerkleM to act like more like early Microsoft than X on crypto rails?

Killer thread from @itsbasil
HT @sahil for resurfacing it
https://warpcast.com/itsbasil/0x30325364

I had cast this thought in a reply last night with tons of mistakes.
Touched up version:

Not sure what WC evolves into, but it’s likely to become more of a mega app with platform-like services. WC might own integrated features like a swap and payments service (as mini-apps?), and developers could choose to utilize notifs, account recovery, DC/GC etc, although I'd imaged there will be substantially more lock-in taking those dependencies. The FC "protocol" could get leaner in that situation (e.g., focusing on just verify/store/sync and identity), while WC grows more robust. WC might function increasingly like an operating system and messaging app combined. There’s likely an opportunity to learn from how Microsoft Windows and Office expanded their ecosystems.
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