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Matei
@no
Big web3 assumption going around I'm not seeing questioned: users care to be owners. Contrarian: Most users are consumers of <content/product/value> and ownership POTENTIAL in <> won't change their behaviour to web3 from web2 simply because of ownership.
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Naveen
@yateagle
People love owning things because it allows them to tell a richer more meaningful story about themselves. A sneaker head scoring a hot drop @ undefeated. A watch person flexing their newest watch etc. Ownership isn’t always about profit seeking. It’s more often about identity and storytelling
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@tayyab
Consumers won’t care to own. Creators will. Creators will own the platforms of the future. The new oligarchs. Get ready for it.
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Corbin Page
@corbin.eth
idk, the potential for exponential wealth/status is a ridiculously powerful motivator. Inside and outside of crypto. Just look how bad kids want to go viral on tiktok/youtube. And crypto is a pretty powerful tool to do that. Safe assumption imho.
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@manansh
classifying which types of users on the tech adoption curve might be useful here too. I wonder if ownership will be more popular among kids growing up now and the generations coming up. It’s way too soon to say.
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Alex Loukissas 🍉
@futureartist
web1/2/3/4/5/6 it doesn't matter - if you (a) save me time or (b) make me money or (c) ideally both, i'll use your product
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@benersing
Great discussion in this thread. A few thoughts to add: 1. Our current heuristic of consumer vs creator vs platform is deeply rooted in web2 operating model assumptions. As web3 rewrites those assumptions, it will have the potential to rewrite the user profile.
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Andy Jagoe
@andyjagoe
you might be right, in the same way users give up data and privacy today in exchange for short term consumption and convenience this would be sad, because it means web3 may be little more than a Big Tech changing of the guard
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@beasley
Despite probably wanting it to be otherwise, I think this is exactly right. Ownership (outside of content creators) feels a little like an insurance policy; you take it for granted until you need it. But since it's never been on the table with web2, ownership is rarely considered in the first place.
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Vinay Vasanji
@vinayvasanji.eth
The good thing about the bear market is builders have to focus on actual value/use cases rather than relying on the current thing narrative
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@nintynick.eth
I think this missed the point. Users will care when it affects them, which is *late-stage,* when platform incentives become misaligned (i.e. extractive) relative to user incentives Decentralized platforms will be able to differentiate on ownership (Img cred owocki.twitter) https://i.imgur.com/NnxJK1r.jpg
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@akshatha
I think it depends. Ownership providing real utility could totally change behavior, namely equity (entitling you to a portion of, say, earnings) or providing the ability to own, so also sell, something. Where I think users may care less is governance (have to strike the balance of having a say vs creating bottlenecks)
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