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I’m building @sopha, a Farcaster client designed for depth - a third place for reading, thinking, and conversation. As clients increasingly optimise for trading, Sopha focuses on sense-making, culture, and ideas that take time. It’s a place worth lingering in, built for people who care about signal over reach and conversation over performance. It’s already in use (Client and Mini-app in production, 350+ casts curated), and I’m asking Purple DAO for a small amount of support to cover core infrastructure costs while it continues to take shape. lmk if you have any questions or would to try it out and become part of what we're building. https://nouns.build/dao/base/0x8de71d80e…

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the point of decentralized social is neutered without transparent algorithms being nerfed by the algo is the functional equivalent to being deplatformed in web2. we need credible neutrality of distribution, not just of access

38 minutes from launch to some douchebag coining my app against my will and not with me getting any of the benefits why do i build on this platform again ? would love actual answers

spending a few days away from social media and computers makes you realize how dumb most of this is

In 2021, I wrote extensively on this topic. On paper, purely technically, it was a no-brainer - greater performance, interoperability, secure access to ethereum liquidity, security & decentralization, significantly lower inflation for economic sustainability, etc. etc. Since then, all major new chains have been L2s - from DAOs (Unichain) to crypto corporations (Coinbase, Kraken) to tradfi (Robinhood), with the sole exception of Hyperliquid. There have been some L1 > L2 like Celo as mentioned. However, over 4 years, most legacy L1s have remained L1s. Potential reasons: - Application demand growth has been a fraction of expectations. Most L1s have barely any activity and have no need for the greater performance or interoperability of L2s - L2 & blob dev have slowed down since '22 potentially due to the above, with performance much lower than expected in '25 - Much of their token value is based on being an anti-ethereum cult - The industry has pivoted to degeneracy, decentralization/security matter less now

Well, that didn't take long! I've seen comments about "decentralisation is the goal" - it's not. I'll address it again, though it's just repeating my blog posts from 2023. USDC is issued by Circle, a publicly owned company regulated by government agencies with a set of checks and balances, which are indirectly elected by hundreds of millions of US citizens. By deploying on Ethereum, you make USDC less decentralized by adding additional intermediaries (chiefly a few thousand noderunners) which aren't necessary for a lot of usecases. Ethereum is very centralised, it's just *differently centralised* However, there'll always be usecases where that differential centralisation will be useful. There's also sticky network effects, as we've seen with USDT on Tron. I only care about using the best technology for the job, and for most stablecoin payments, Ethereum or Tron are not it. But there are also certain usecases where they are, like jurisdictions that restrict USDC and access to Ethereum DeFi.

There is only one instance of the N word casted by a user with a quotient score above .55 in the last 365 days. Farcaster being not racist is a big plus for me