0xae65e700…46c0sent to0xb6d1eb1a…dab3·#19,187,041·view on Etherscan
(noun40 voting via agora)
the history of nouns public communication has been a journey of migrating from offchain / centralized things that doesn't serve us well (discord failed b/c moderation started becoming controversial when there's a single official space; twitter failed b/c it's hard for new members of the community to be heard and in general the posts to not be drowned out by everything else; discourse was in general a shit show) to now most entirely on onchain vote reasons / signal feedback viewed on camp and farcaster nouns channel.
it's just so abundantly clear that for an onchain community like nouns there's so much advantages of being on farcaster (e.g. it's easier to grow a mint economy when you can 1-tap mint straight from the social communication platform everyone is already on). also all the public communications tied to the address / fid allows for further emergent identity to be built such that we can leverage it for sybil resistance and getting better onchain understanding of our fanbase etc.
anyhow, i'm super supportive of us investing in the public communication infrastructure that is winning out and proving to be where our community is continuing to just be at. this mandated round prop is such a welcome step in that direction.
there are two nouns farcaster clients that i'm dying to see:
1. warpcast quality mobile app that allows for algos to be plug-and-play: one of the PRIMARY ways that i think decentralized social can be liberating is if the algos can be community built and user selected. the whole world living in one algo on X is so suffocating but X as a company has their own business incentives to not let users take control of their own attention. we need communities to be able to build algos that are suited for them and users to pick what works for them. i understand that buliding a great algo would be its own big project (potentially own company sized task) but we'd be happy to fund nouns algo building as a separate round in the future as well.
2. reddit like client that focuses on more sticky discovery and long form conversation: casts have character limits that limit someone to raise a long form governance topic and also casts are so ephemeral things get lost too easily. nouns channel i feel works well for ppl that are visiting it multiple times a day but doesn't work particularly well for someone that visits it once a day or once every few days. need a place to be able to find the popular content and good long form discussions that are happening over a longer arc.