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Farcaster

I am re-reading Eugen Wei's "Status as a Service (StaaS)". One of the most insightful pieces on social networks I've ever read. This paragraph currently stands out as I read through this great blog post. 

"What ties many of these explanations together is social capital theory, and how we analyze social networks should include a study of a social network's accumulation of social capital assets and the nature and structure of its status games. In other words, how do such companies capitalize, either consciously or not, on the fact that people are status-seeking monkeys, always trying to seek more of it in the most efficient way possible?"  

What makes @farcaster interesting are the multitude of social capital assets and status games to accumulate those assets. 

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

The core principle of status as a service is that social media platforms make you do work to earn status, and this is how they grow. 

But isn’t this falling apart?

The essay mentions Prisma: a photo filter app that was too easy, and the tech too good. 

Hello TikTok? In both cases, the emphasis is not on any one user, but how tech can turn mediocre inputs into top tier outputs.

Indeed, vertical videos platforms are full of automated faceless videos which don’t take much work (hello @fun)

The best content is still handmade, but is the correlation from work to status still there? 

Modern social media platforms succeeded despite disconnecting visible work from success. 
With this link broken, how can social media still be about status?

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guess it depends on the medium. still holds here in wordcel land, tho less so for codecels