For as long as I've been working in crypto, people have been trying crypto-social experiments aimed at rewarding content creators. I know because I've been one of those people. I previously cofounded Cent, a web3 social network that ran a ton of different expe…

The answer comes in two parts. 1. Bluesky took off at the same time as the second major exodus from X. The first one sent most people to Mastodon and it was so different and so empty, most people either bounced right back to X or left “microblogging” altoget…