Comment by @chaoticmonk • Hey

very interesting Ryan 👏 - Perhaps its the terminology, but I must admit I still need some time wrapping my head around notion of - Users "using" me.

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Totally get that haha. There are so many ways to use data it can be a little difficult to understand until we have clear workflows with examples and apps demonstrating this concept. So one clear example is VR. I've had a few onCyber spaces over the past 2 years. I spent many hours decorating them with art and photos I collected, and even photos I took (see attached). In a very real sense I used the data I collected from artists like T. Eric Monroe, Seerlight, Steve Aoki, etc. I became a user of them because I took their data and loaded it into the onCyber app. So now imagine putting on an Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest headset and you see the room you're currently in. You really like van Gogh's The Starry Night and want your walls painted in that style. You tell Gen AI to paint the walls "in the style of The Starry Night" and it makes brand new data, new artwork, using The Starry Night. You're suddenly a van Gogh user. Then you want to put on some LoFi Miles Davis and get some work done. You tell Gen AI to create LoFi versions of "Kind of Blue" and it does. You're now a Miles Davis user. You're using his data to generate new data. We haven't really used this term in this way before because it's such an amorphous concept--how do you keep track of whose data is whose? And where did that data go? I've seen your catalog of photos. Let's say I'm heavily influenced by them and I go out in New York and try to take new photos in your style. In a very vague sense in that situation you could say I'm a user of your data but...we would never really say that. There's no actual data being used. However, if I collect your photos onchain and then feed that to Stable Diffusion and create photographs of cities on the moon in your style, it's very clear and trackable that I used your data. I collected your data and used it in a very specific way. In the same way it can be very clear that someone is a Microsoft Word user or an AutoTune user, or a Photoshop user. Having social news feeds meant people could became "Followers" of each other. Having data onchain, ownable, and trackable enables this User concept to become a metric which is now tracked as well.