phil
@phil
I find the backlash to the new Zora model quite fascinating. When NFT’s first became popular, many people advanced the same criticisms. They weren’t real art, they overly financialized something that shouldn’t have a price on it, etc Now, four years later we have learned a lot. It’s time for new experiments. But it’s weird to see NFTs being held up as some bastion of artistic purity.
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six
@six
I don’t see much backlash to the model itself tbh Moreso towards the rhetoric and the way people are talking about it
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
I think Zora has done a poor job communicating their systemic changes. They removed the ability to control supply & duration (unilaterally, without artist control or input). Then they opened a secondary market at low price point, again, without giving the artists on the platform already (The current users) any choice. Now, they've shifted towards being a content exchange, rather than a smart contract producer for art. Not saying the new model is bad, merely that by going from art-centric to content-centric, without communicating this to the current and new users, a lot of people feel betrayed and distrustful of this new 'memecoin' era of art.
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aferg
@aaronrferguson
Definitely a well established pattern of big changes, no choice for users, and no communication.
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
Yep. Feels like their sights are set on the next generation, rather than the current one https://warpcast.com/cassie/0x35e93c59
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
I don't work for Zora, and I quit Coinbase because I disagreed with the idea of Base as an OP fork L2, let alone being attached to Ethereum.
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