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my tiny protest against the free mint meta: why i've decided to no longer sell full pieces on free mint platforms. https://paragraph.xyz/@tinyrainboot/free-mint-meta

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my 1 month august break from zora, etc. turned into an indefinite break ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ for me, i don't even think it's so much about the dropping prices (i was airdropping lots of things anyways) but it was as u also mentioned – the removal of controls. that, more than anything for me, really changed the vibe. now i'm kind of like, why bother? the other thing i've noticed, which i feel really bad about, is that since this all went down, i feel like i've lost a lot of interest in collecting. like before it felt better (still not the best) that a single mint provided slightly more tangible support for the artist. now that it's devalued so much, it feels no different than just pressing like on social. so when i'm busy and i'll just quickly press like rather than go through the steps to connect, sign, load wallet, change app, etc. to send 25 cents (╥_╥) i also see ppl increase their output frequency and churn things out to compensate and this content overload makes me less interested in collecting as well

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Yes, seems like web3 is devolving into trying to become web2

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it’s the equivalent of “we will pay you with exposure” this model is not in the interest of artist but the platform to boost onchain activity, and like you said, very web2-esque unfortunately

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would love to hear a response from @jacob imo this is primarily a ux/brand issue. zora protocol is super innovative, but the app is a clone of a product creators and consumers don't like (but are super addicted to). regardless, it's a good thing that they're opinionated, otherwise they'd learn very little. let superrare and foundation flounder with proven bad token and marketplace models. who else has incentivized curation? who else has created compelling solutions to secondary liquidity and creator royalties? in a digital environment these are the big problems to attack. we can't fight the realities of a digital environment - it's an attention game and it's only going to get harder. zora feels much closer than any other nft platform. found mint protocol very interesting: https://mint.vv.xyz/guide/

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Yeah for sure, there is INCREDIBLE works on Rodeo that I know must have taken ages for some of the artists. But the web3 Insta is what stresses me out because ZORA too now looks the same as IG, it just makes u feel like you're endlessly consuming content. But I wana stop, see the work learn more about it, the whole project not always just a singular image then onto another one. Eek random thoughts 💚

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500 $degen also I didn't cancel you off my microsub - you are still there but it's being a bit erratic as to who actually gets it so here you go - here's to disillusionment with nft prices x

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i think we're going into this direction, neither zora or rodeo should be seen as selling digital art anymore https://warpcast.com/tomu.eth/0xb235d0e5

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Loved this so much, Tiny! Shared my thoughts about what you’ve reflected on here: https://warpcast.com/eduardmsmr/0xa51f9deb 200 $degen 🌹

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oh, $1000 degen ;)

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But why not minting wips anyways? I find it even more valuable than finished work tbh 🙂

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I was complain about that for months, but no one was take this seriously and people still praising platforms like Zora… Maybe you have started your journey later than me, before the situation was completely different. The problem is not the free mint itself, main issue are the extremely low rewards. Zora was used to pay me 10x times more for free mint, once they have reached a lot of users they have cutted the rewards and changed their algorithm for pleasing their investors and increase their earns, that has killed all my collections also because they are less discoverable (dropped views) even for people who follow me. This problem is amplified with the bad Farcaster algo. Despite Zora claims to have paid a lot of money to artists, actually that's not true anymore, they are just diluted to more users. Now, I'm forced to set a minimum price to all new pieces because the rewards are too low to be sustainable.

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nice piece. made many excellent points that i agree with. i basically see free mints as art ads for (other) pieces.

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Yes i totally agree with this. 🥹

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/microsub tip: 9 $DEGEN

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/microsub tip: 13 $DEGEN

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/microsub tip: 40 $DEGEN

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/microsub tip: 39 $DEGEN

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/microsub tip: 97 $DEGEN

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/microsub tip: 46 $DEGEN

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