How would you define Ethereum's Social Layer?

tl;dr - persons who publish dialogue onchain and offchain

that's really reductive though. I'd immediately point to Ethereum's cat herders and ethereum-magicians.org as de facto Schelling points, which really can't be articulated out in any single post.

offchain can also mean offline. while it may not seem relevant to the resiliency of the network itself, there are political movements like "Stand With Crypto" which drives nth-order effects to enshrining smart contracts as rightful legal contracts, which builds toward a physically sustained network beyond not having enough recreational, spendthrift usecases.

one could also perceive the yet-to-be-active in the yet-to-be-aligned, such as other competing ecosystems, and laypeople on the fence. perhaps this is the intended audience of the UX narrative; if the right developers are incubated to present the correct polish, the status of existing on the Ethereum Social Layer will be too compelling to avoid altogether.

accountability above all else; the definition includes the intuition of persons-of-persons in the "six degrees of kevin bacon" sense. it's not just the organization of an official keynote, but also the clique of developers relocating to a side event to jam.

I have a hard time articulating this vague, handwavy concept of a "hypersynapse", where the SL actually crystallizes into dynamic, discerning incentive structures (quite frankly, airdrops/allowlists are so blunt & repetitive that they suppress such incentive systems). the catch is that community members have to account for conflicts of interest & advocate for themselves in a structured fashion, which is prohibitive-costly without some exogenous source of authority.

the SL probably is dual-use for general emergency comms: https://hey.xyz/posts/0x7b-0xc1

it's also dual-use as the local bulletin board: https://hey.xyz/posts/0x7b-0x89

this is something I feel a need to engage in further praxis, because it's probably jagged > general.

not reductive at all, that's a pretty original definition. what do you think the function of the SL is?