Lots has happened since I last posted here.
TLDR, bullish things happening on Lens - testnet shipped, social features unveiled. 
Graphs became a primitive, build your own, or leverage the global one. We want to give people freedom and enhance healthy competition.

Introducing Graphs: a new social feature that maps account-to-account connections. 🌐

👩🏻‍💻 Devs can use the global Graph to benefit from shared network effects, or create their own app-level graph.
🔗 Users keep one account to connect across Graphs seamlessly. https://t.co/oJkj85Nlow

Lens

Lots has happened since I last posted here.
TLDR, bullish things happening on Lens - testnet shipped, social features unveiled. 
Graphs became a primitive, build your own, or leverage the global one. We want to give people freedom and enhance healthy competition. 
https://x.com/LensProtocol/status/1859196482139853068

I think assuming failure at such an early stage is not really a thing. Lens is an immature product still, about to become a network with social features. 

I agree with you, the bot issue is quite annoying, but honestly, its also bad on Twitter and web2 social at large, we'll have to learn to coexist. There are many cool things about the Lens social features that might poise Lens as a catalyser for real adoption. But we just shipped testnet, too early to tell. 

As for Bluesky winning, I'm into it. It's good tech and as long as Twitter dies, I'm happy no matter who's the killer.

Oh, that's a different thing. But Orb is THRIVING. Slower than bluesky, but its a really good experience. 
The game is long though.