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Open playgrounds vs Walled gardens

We are entering an era which will consist of two sides of the Internet:

- The open-sourced, decentralised, composable (web3)

- The closed-sourced, centralised, walled one (web2)

working swiss army knife • @squads • /superteam • mostly managing my browser tabs

I have been thinking about this for a long time but frames is one primitive that has really made this obvious.

A great example of how web3 and on-chain internet primitives are a positive divergence away from the regressive and closed path web2 social media companies seem to be on.

While web2 apps have these for commerce, the crypto rails frames are built on allow these OG images to be composable with any kind of website.

Buy a gadget in your game, trade a position, roast a friend, send an email, buy clothes — all from your feed. Embedded actions only possible on-chain.

While X and other social media networks continue to build walled gardens with higher walls (higher API costs, restricting external links, etc), crypto-powered networks/protocols that are open, interactive and composable become more and more important with time.

Bringing India onchain | @base | Player @callusfbi

This is why we're here.

Composability > Decomposability
Open Playgrounds > Walled Gardens

(shared this on X but posting here as well cause I got called out by @saxenasaheb)