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sorry you had that experience. fortunately, it’s not up to us. the market will choose which experiences it prefers.

There are a lot of tech maxis that will call this sacrilege.  I got verbally beaten up a few times when I suggested people ELI5, with arguments that the whole point of this space was understanding decentralization concepts.

That’s just gatekeeping. Tech always tends towards max simplicity over the long term.

marketing, product and growth | prev content & comms lead at @nansen-ai

yep, but like you said it's much less effective in the current model.

for example, there is low overlap between my phone contacts and who i follow on twitter and ig. so importing that social graph doesn't get me far in many cases.

they also have to ask for me to pick my interests, when they could have a robust understanding of them instead.

agree it's enough reason to be optimistic!

Love this. 

Existing social apps are already doing what you suggest in the last paragraph just much less effective since they don’t actually have access to your identity on other apps. 

But they are already pointing you towards your friends (heavy emphasis on you importing your contacts so they can surface them), already try to show you things you like (by asking for areas of interest). 

Onchain social has the ability to do it better and that, is enough reason to be optimistic.

building checkr.social | writing tomu.xyz | nf.td/tomu

hope so, its just words for now, i don’t see it on numbers

there’s a lot of in-group signaling by using the right buzzwords. people had a habit of labeling people/projects ngmi if they weren’t on the latest words. it’s happening less now than last cycle. the space is maturing.

🎯

also funny how projects, brands, companies still use techy words to get users when it was clear last cycle that nfts doesn’t get anyone in (real users that care about social “onchain”) -  but i guess we’ll still say this things next cycle as well

everything i say on here is financial advice

reasonable question! there are a few contributing factors that come to mind:

1. until recently, the tech wasn't mature enough to be abstracted away in the user experience

2. a lot of the world class design talent hasn't made it to the space. in part because of #1.

3. many people in this space are ideologically driven, leading to conflicting opinions about what should be abstracted away at all

not so different from the development of the computing industry overall. originally just for geeks, but as technology got better it became easier to deliver a simpler ux, and it takes world class talent to prioritize that simplicity. which is basically what made apple, apple.

I’m 1 years young to the crypto space but 15 years old to the UX design of tech product space, so I’m honestly asking this purely to understand, not not mock, but…

Why are everyone, who builds in this space, consistently 20 years behind schedule of what the consumer tech industry spent a lot of time and money to learn about this?

You keep on saying "across context and apps", but this refers only to one property of being onchain - native composability. There's much more value that truly distributed networks can offer - open access, self-sovereignty, censorship resistance. I think there's only one "onchain", supporting tech will cath up.