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How would you define Ethereum's Social Layer?
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@m-j-r.eth
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.
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not reductive at all, that's a pretty original definition. what do you think the function of the SL is?
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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.
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i can follow. one of my main lines re: SL is people don't know how to properly advocate for themselves via the right channels re: protocol *but* that it is also probably not in the interest of those who do to encourage them. and there is also a subtle legitimacy afforded to established folks that is both helpful for progress and debilitating in times like now, when the vibes are a little off. (re: that lens post, i wrote this a while back: https://blockworks.co/news/crypto-subculture-x-reliance). so i think our social media is emergency comms but also non-emergency hindrance in terms of community spirit
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> non-emergency hindrance in terms of community spirit that's powerful. that's exactly the "I'm dedicated to these telegram/discord notifications, even though it's unpleasant without considering the upside" feeling that I used to compartmentalize during the 2021 bull run. community spirit was its highest when we were spontaneously fundraising for ConstitutionDAO, even when the retrospective criticism should be that it didn't serve builders or a rainy day fund after marking a cycle top. I think 2023 was horrible sentiment (despite Shapella), and imho it's because ChatGPT stole the oxygen. twitter was still emergency comms for the occasional rugpull, but it wasn't front global stage like 2022. more attention and anti-confidence was directed at metacommentary of Twitter being mismanaged than the triumph of Ethereum fully hot-swapping consensus mechanisms (how has that even been memory-holed?) I'm optimistic that this cycle will be social, but we're still going to collide with attention & governance liability.
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