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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
The @moxie.eth launches on July 29, and I plan to experiment with Moxie for the Slowcore HQ channel. I’m using a brilliant piece on the "curator economy" by @tombeck.eth as a north star to guide my thinking toward a slowcore business model. I’d welcome input — ideally from those who’ve read both Tom’s piece and the Moxie docs (see links below). How do you think we might: - attract and retain quality contributors, and reward them in positive-sum ways (without reproducing hustle culture or mindless pursuit of growth)? - sustainably reward curation and moderation labor for the channel? - create a space that encourages social cohesion, close reading, and deep thought? Keep in mind that value should flow to all 4 contributor roles Tom identifies: writers, curators, readers, + preservers. Feel free to take your time. I may quote/recast thoughtful replies to resurface the discussion later on. https://paragraph.xyz/@driftless/curator-economy https://build.moxie.xyz/the-moxie-protocol
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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
The ability to actually invest in creators, and get dividends from those investments is going to be interesting to see unfold in the coming months. I'm very interested to see how this develops, and how trends will affect the "market of creators." Because you want to reward creators of content you enjoy, but you also want to invest in creators who are going to continually produce good content that provides good returns. Seems like there will be a flurry of development and new ways of engaging that will develop from it.
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
I agree that we’ll see all manner of new ways of engaging. Definitely an exciting time to be on FC. However, I’m not convinced that a model based on “investing in creators/content by potential ROI” or “voluntary subscriptions to individual creators/projects” lends itself to a slowcore channel. For a curator economy model to work as Tom describes it, I’d lean toward mechanisms that reward contributions more diffusely, relationally, and indirectly. From Tom’s piece: “…the creator economy rests on a particular monetizable relationship: that between the content and its creator. As Agarwal says, "The value is in the network but it is the content::creator unit that is seen as the monetizable entity… there's a lot more happening in online networks that create value besides creating content." The value is in the collective intelligence of the network as a whole. How can that vision be enacted for this small slowcore channel? Hopefully Moxie will help us find out.
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