social

been thinking a bit about what it actually means for online creators to own their audience - an important promise of decentralized social that i don't think any emerging platforms really succeed at delivering yet

i believe it comes down to 2 things:

1. distribution: when someone subscribes to your content, you should be able to reach them regardless of what the app they are using thinks of you

2. fairness: subscriber feed algorithms should rank your content based on signals from the user or the network at large, but not the app itself (e.g. shadowbans/spam labels)

absolute fairness is hard to achieve with current feed building architectures and content policies. MEV analogies are potentially interesting here e.g. encrypted mempool = encrypted content, proposer builder separation = client feed builder separation

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Solving exclusively for consumers also won’t bring you to build a decentralized social protocol, would it?

The challenge is creators want this but consumers don't. Consumers are more likely to churn. Solve for consumers.