Comment by @stani • Hey
Thats quite true, the lower the barrier to enter a network the more challenging it will be to ensure quality (same thing is happening in all social network
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- Regarding creators asking to open up, their true need is monetization. Getting traction through big audiences is the old playbook they know. More eyeballs would definitely help (we're a really tight community here 🙂), but that is not enough by itself.
Many artists came to Lens for a promise of novel interaction models, but the truly unique use cases are still on the way. E.g., collecting is now merely a form of artist support. I collect a photo and get an NFT of a low resolution image, that's it. No wonder there are just a few paid collects here and there. You could collect IRL paintings as expensive 1/1 mints (or IP rights to photos), get high res files or even prints delivered for a bit less, get artists future revenue share, etc.
When creators finally have (and start using) such tools to monetize on Lens, they can start bringing their existing audiences onboard (there must be ways/tools for that too). This could be one of the paths to opening up more broadly.
Another part is the very much needed advertising and revenue sharing infra, which are still being built. Audience sizes play a bigger role here, but there must be tools in the first place.
And finally, seamless experience. Broader masses will hardly be wallet approving every comment or tolerating bugs, crashes or app interoperability issues, that's for sure.
It really seems like a puzzle, slowly coming together. We'd like to finish it faster, but it takes time.
- Wdyt @lens/stani ? Lens opening up gradually, in line with infra and use cases being built? https://orb.ac/post/0xe30c-0x016a-DA-70c8d35e