the tough reality for crypto-based social platforms: 90% of people are here for one thing—number go up. Builders trying to make genuine, lasting products are up against a crowd that checks out the moment their portfolios dip. Hard to build community when everyone’s just watching the charts.

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The other challenge is that while that’s true, most are also fooling themselves about it. They think they are here for the art or the community or the whatever… And they give feedback and complain along that narrative… Complaints oddly silent when number is going up and ever present on the down.