# Why you should support Kiwi in the Octant round

Source: https://xcancel.com/KiwiNewsHQ/status/1879940525245235703
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-you-should-support-Kiwi-in-the-Octant-round?index=0x67893f2e380d5ac025633e6373129b476f8e12990092e9195033220ed226ab2846a6fa92
Submitted by macbudkowski.eth on 2025-01-16 UTC, 8 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

Kiwi, an Ethereum builder community founded in 2023, asks readers to support it in the current Octant round, arguing that Twitter is a poor place to follow important Ethereum developments. The team says Twitter's virality-driven algorithm and constant news stream reward attention-seeking takes and rage bait, so KOLs get more attention than OG builders. Kiwi describes itself as a place where builders find daily curated essays, talks, GitHub repos, Dune dashboards and products, with community discussion and help available. The post notes that the two founders rejected VC funding and run Kiwi on savings, grants and some revenue, so every donation matters.

## Article

Yesterday at @OctantApp Spaces we got asked why people should support Kiwi.

Here's more or less what we said:

We all know that ETH conferences are great - we are consuming quality content, discussing it with friends, and meeting new, interesting people.

Going back to Twitter after an ETH conference is like a watching a grotesque American high school movie after seeing Lord of the Rings.

Instead of deep, nuanced debates, most of the conversation is ran by attention-seeking, "look how cool I am" takes and rage baits.

This is why KOLs are more popular than OG builders.
This is why bad tech gets attention. 
And this is why Solana and more centralized chains succeed with their carefully crafted narratives.

Generally speaking, Twitter with its virality-oriented algorithm, never ending stream of news, and Solana manlets doing DDoS attacks on our attention, is not a good place to follow most important things in Ethereum.

And this is why since 2023 we've been building Kiwi.

Kiwi is a place where Ethereum builders can find their alpha. Every day we serve them new curated essays, talks, GitHub repos, Dune dashboards and products. 

Our community members discuss the content in the comments section and our groupchat, and you can always find help - even if you think it's too niche or technical, we probably have someone who can point you in the right direction.

In the meantime, you meet other founders, devs & operators who are serious about Etheruem. Kind of like an ETH conference, but online.

If you think this kind of place can be useful for our ecosystem, then you might want to support Kiwi in the current Octant round.

Plus, we are just two guys who rejected VC funding and been running it based on our savings, grants and some revenue. So every donation matters a lot.

PS: We shared the link to our Octant page in the first comment.

PS2: It doesn't mean that the Ethereum community shouldn't use Twitter. We should, because this is where we can reach millions of people.

But we could treat it more like a megaphone to spread messages, and less like a forum to share half-baked thoughts, where concerned Solana investors are just waiting to dunk on us.