First impressions of Austin have been awesome.
No time to rest or explore much, though.
Tomorrow morning, we'll be visiting our first project: an independent microschool.
The activity of the day? Kids will be cooking chicken adobo for Filipino Heritage Month.🙂 Just another casual day of learning for them.
The school is part of the @KaiPodCo network.
It's a really interesting project that supports education entrepreneurs who want to start their own microschools, with hundreds of schools in their network.
We'll be interviewing the founder, @AmarKumarEdu, in a few days too.
Sounds weird, right? School networks, microschools, kids cooking, entrepreneurs building independent learning spaces, accelerators...
Yea, that's just a small part of a much bigger revolution we're witnessing in the US and other parts of the free world.
A revolution we're documenting at networksociety.film/episode3.
Join us!
One thing people need to realize is that, unfortunately, decentralized social networks haven't worked yet.
That's the truth.
Farcaster's interactions dropped by 90% after @dwr sold it, down to fewer than 3,000 posts a day.
Lens has never really taken off and has been consistently declining, also hovering around a few thousand interactions a day.
I really love these innovations and have always been an early adopter of both, but so far, they've failed.
There are, unironically, Telegram groups with more engagement than these platforms.
So having someone like @balajis spending time and money trying to make the protocol useful and help it grow is really awesome.
Web3 people really love to engage in these philosophical debates about decentralization, but if no one uses it, it doesn't matter whether it's decentralized or not. It's just LARPing.
Farcaster was dead, and now it's got another shot. If you're enthusiastic about decentralized social networks, take advantage of this moment. Join NS or another client and use the momentum to your advantage.
People who are really serious about (wet) software - culture -, should make their own social network.
@balajis just acquired @farcaster_xyz and set an explicit social contract. Only techno-optimists allowed.
A few didn't consent and exited to other clients, without losing their social graph and content.
That's how it should be. Trying to force two tribes with fundamentally different values to share the same space is crazy.
Everyone is about to be a coder and build a lot of software, without even realize that.
Similar to what you've been saying @levelsio
youtube.com/watch?v=-CG-Pv8c…
Our presentation at the Network State Conference is live now.
My goal was sharing part of our strategy in leveraging @ipecity community and platform as a governance lab and economic engine for builders and companies.
We'll succeed if we generate a parallel governance platform for our community able to generate more opportuntities than the cost of the passport membership.
That's why you move to a new city after all -- it has the power to generate economic opportunities for you through network, jobs, education, culture-alignment, etc.
The first grants and jobs we generated (+$10k) were just the beginning. We'll increase the scope of it and improve a lot the process.
Hope to see you all next year in Floripa. LFG!
Really fun to speak at @ns conference once again. I used the opportunity to share a few ideas on bootstrapping a new community and why @ipecity is focusing on applying frontier tech to solve problems from emerging countries.
Also, many great connections made at our booth with @andr9froes.
Ipê Village 2027 is gonna be epic.
See you all next year.
