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This is called misdirection. Classic bi-partisan tactics to keep us arguing about questions that don't have answers (likely unintentional here). The issue isn't whether memecoins are good or bad. That's a moral question that is completely subjective and highly variable based on context. Without a clear context, it's easy to argue either side with no possibility of resolution. The important question is whether the mechanisms with which memecoins are being presented to people is accurately representing what they are and if the focus on this kind of trading activity is actually promoting positive growth that is setting us up for long term sustainability vs creating another way to extract value from an uninformed retail market.

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Very well articulated criticism of why meme coins are not an "investment vehicle" to support early dev projects. You have to look at the power dynamics to fully grok it: - platform is collecting most of the trading fees - asymmetric information benefits extractive trading - "investors" have zero rights, guarantees, or protections - projects that are better at stimulating drama that causes trading generate more revenue than projects that just focus on heads down grinding - zero revenue potential for the meme tokenomics means inevitably no return on investment unless you do extractive trading - the more committed you are to helping the project the more likely you are to end up dumped on in the end The system is designed to make sure the system profits. Just like any good casino, the house always wins.

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Curious how this resonates for @nicovrg and @alvesjtiago.eth because it feels kind both of you are sort of building around this general problem space. Imo, people need more optionality and flexibility with how they interact with their social graph based on what they are doing at any given moment, now that so much of our online/onchain activities are getting mashed together on a single UX.

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Customizable algorithms to fine tune the feed at the user level... This is a level of experimentation I'd like to see happening.

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Best way to have meaningful connections with people on Farcaster is to make friends! When people like you, they say the nicest things! And boy does that make it worthwhile being here and a part of the community! ❤️

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Sometimes you have to resurface a conversation from the depths of a reply thread! https://warpcast.com/trigs/0xe636ed1f

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Love how this conversation helped me flesh out my original thought and I made a new friend in the process! This kind of magic only happens in the replies! If you're trying to figure out how to find your cozy corner in the Farcaster community, this is my advice: Find channels on topics you're interested in, and join them! Meet people in the replies and have conversations, even tho it does nothing to directly impact any rewards you might get other than friendship and conversation! https://warpcast.com/trigs/0x644ae974

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This conversation has eclipsed into the dark forest of Warpcast threads now... As soon as it's more than 3 ppl talking, the conversation gets challenging. Now content is getting lost and nobody new will be able to find or follow the thread. This contributes to the feeling of "the void" when there is this amazing discussion potential buried in reply threads that are so hard to navigate, it feels like literally wandering in the woods of the dark forest. When you look at the top level post that makes it around the feed, half the time the comments look like there's nothing there. That's why ppl have to QC replies like this out to surface them. Which creates these disjointed conversation threads spraying out into the wild, instead of a cohesive conversation. I honestly don't know how to solve this. But I feel like it's part of what's missing to make conversations great on Warpcast.

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Feels like a common problem for Farcaster. I think Warpcast has done a good job with curation and spam reduction... But in the process it hasn't stimulated a "conversation culture". You don't get any direct reputation value out of replying to ppl's casts. So ppl just QC instead. Making lots of low quality replies also punishes you, which is good. It's cut down on the pointless +1 replies. What we don't have is any incentive to actually start real conversations with ppl. To reply to ppl to give them validation we liked their post. Basically there's no mechanic that rewards friendships. On a platform that is hyper focused on reward incentives, having the most important activity be the least incentivized is what results in users feeling like they are "shouting into the void". Warpcast is doing great things, but what's really needed is to make conversations great again. Ideas, anyone?

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How to support devs in early stages pre-product: Send them crypto. That's it.

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This is a really interesting and important concept: Having your notes be from yourself and only use the AI as a process step for output, not to generate more input for the AI. This prevents the recursive self-training loops from biasing your notes for future use in newer, better AI models.

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"The beauty of building a modern networking solution on web3 rails is that we can architect so that even if we want to rug / gatekeep / lock you in, we don't have the technical ability." - @web3pm There's no single thing that will indicate we've achieved the web3 dream, but there will be signs.

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I don't know if everyone does this or if I'm just odd, but soon as I found these options in figjam, I immediately started to hate it less. I just cannot wrap my head around a canvas tool that you can't zoom in and out with the mouse wheel and drag around with a right click (without using a modifier on the keyboard). My brain would break every time I tried to navigate a figjam until now. Why would I want it to 'scroll' up and down and not zoom in and out and drag as a default mouse setting? Is it just keyboard centric vs mouse centric users? Or latop/trackpad vs dedicated mouse? I can't imaging building canvases on a trackpad tho. Maybe that's why I just don't get it.

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Doesn't matter if I'm gone for 5 minutes or 5 hours- soon as I get back the dogs wear themselves out sniffing every inch of me to find out what I was up to without them. Then they pass out wherever I happen to stop moving for at least 30 seconds.

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Some ideas just smack.

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OSS needs community as the accountability layer. Transparency isn't enough on its own. We have to self-organize around the values that we want to see reflected in our OSS.

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Warpcast tip of the day: Tagging channels is case specific. /Nearchos /nearchos

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Is it just me or when I share a link to a card does the preview just show a default "ad" frame, not the specific card? https://lowercase.cards/dd55ea9f-92b7-4ec8-835c-90970eb367e3

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I feel this. I'm a reader and a writer. I like long form, and I enjoy sitting with something and taking the time to digest it. What I can't stand is reading slop that's obviously just filling space to maximize SEO. Or long winded diatribes that have no point or purpose other than just brain dumping opinions that haven't been thought through to a point. I definitely use AI summaries to extract the value from over inflated works of prose. I actually stopped writing for awhile because I became hyper-aware of ppl's reducing attention spans and I didn't want to just add to the noise. I focused on developing a skillset producing infographics instead! I do think that quality writing will always have a place and AI will perhaps simply be a catalyst that helps remove SEO slop and replace it with more enjoyably digested content, giving readers more return on their attention.

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I probably shouldn't have made a bracky meme when I've never used it and am not even in the channel to share it there. It was just too funny not to!

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