col (@colsen) • Hey
baseball fan, lifetime learner, $BONSAI early supporter
Publications
- first collab with @lens/louiec is in the books! collect this and help me encourage him to keep dropping more fire here on Lens. we got more tracks in the works… it’s a new day, baby! 😎🔥🌿
- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM @lens/zurfsocial 🏄🏼♂️🏄🏼♂️
The Zurf app comes live this Friday for both Android and iOS 🔥🔥🔥
What you will have right from the start:
🏄 A beautiful feed optimized for video content, everything onchain, your content is published everywhere, and if you post anywhere, it's also on Zurf.
🏄 Collects from the feed with a cute ape icon.
🏄 Start your CREATOR COIN with 2 clicks.
🏄 Buy and sell other profile's creator coins, the creator earns with each trade!
🏄 Zurf plaza: earn tokens for talking about them and allowing other users to buy from your post, also see the tokens that your friends are holding!
🏄 All the basic social media features: see your profile, follow other users, search for users and more.
🏄 Connect to Zurf using metamask and other wallets using our webapp.
What you \*won't\* have for the launch, but a bit later:
🏝 Setting your collect configuration.
🏝 The limit for uploading videos is 30 mb for now.
🏝 Ability to interact with momoka posts
ALSO 🔥🔥🔥
🏖️ Expect POWERFULL incentives for participating in the creator coins economy with $bonsai and $p00ls.
🏖️ Be ready for this friday, both for buyers and for those who will start their coins with Zurf!!
📱 Android users will be able to download the app directly from the playstore, iOS users will have the same version but in testflight!
Join Zurf's telegram group for alpha: <https://t.me/+nidC99ZasRIwZDdh>
See you Zurfin!!! 🌊🌊🌊
- Guess what ?!
It's FREE MINT today Frens 😊
Be fast cause there's only 28/28 available 👀
Have a great day y'all 🫶
- I noticed something changed today. Sometimes I don't have to pay the gas to comment/post, but there're also situations when you click the action button nothing happens after this update.
- My first track release on Lens, open edition 🥹
Going back to the very start, all the way back in 2012 - this is the raw piano recording of Absence, the second track from my debut EP, Movements. I recorded on an upright piano in a little church in a village not far from where I live. The guy who ran the church tried to make me pay more than we agreed on the day, and I said no 😅
This is just the intimate piano piece, without all the other instrumentation, synths and ambience in the final track that I released. I really hope you enjoy it and it brings you some peace today. If you're happy to support and share, there's an 11% mirror reward 🪞
- You can now mint in Orb
- It's the Orb day 😮
- touching snow ☀️
last time this season 🥲
- Grass day
- Try Zurf, powered by Bonsai
- If there's an only reason why onchain social matters to me, I will say because I truly own my account, it won't get cancelled just cause I saying anything right or wrong.
- We reached 10000+ followers on @lens/lens 🥳🥳🥳
Collecting is free for our followers, as a "thank you" 🤗
- Early bird captures the frame.
🖼️
1/1
- Since there were some questions about the Airdrop eligibility:
Season 1 Airdrop (10%)
Went out to ~4500 profiles in the @lens/lens ecosystem. To the top profiles ranked by engagement from @lens/karma3labs , who where part of a @lens/orb v1 community or had @lens/madfinance points.
Season 2 Airdrop (15%)
Will be distributed based on usage of $BONSAI in Lens collects, tips, open actions, staking, and providing liquidity. More details on each will be announced as they are rolled out.
You're still early.
https://www.bonsai.meme/#tokenomics
( 100% of this posts $BONSAI collects goes to mirrors. #RainBonsai #PowerOfLens )
- gm 👋 native music b/c it doesn't exist elsewhere
#lmcc $BONSAI
recorded j bear
guitar alex / zach / dean
bass / keys rob
drum jon
- Sneak peek of a new piece and first @lens/bonsai collect post!
This is Tilt for violin and piano. It premieres here in Nashville on March 20th.
Full recording coming soon 🎻🎹
- My meme setup now: bonsai with low price tag, limited supply or time based. Lot of potential to monetize memes on Lens. Some of these memes could become cultural artifacts on Lens
- Why I am excited about experiments like @lens/bonsai:
We have seen ton of activity around tokens with utility and we have seen a tons of activity around shitcoins because they leaned into a culture vibe for me experiments like $Bonsai on lens or $DEGEN on farcaster are a new very fascinating middle ground. Utility Meme Tokens in a way. They are driven by community vibes and activity and because of the commmunity buy in they return some very interessting utility, tipping, collecting etc...
Really curious to see where this is going..
*Whats the best way to mint one like those?*
- Bitcoin is powered by electricity ⚡️
Ethereum is powered by capital 💸
Bonsai is powered by soil 🌱 water 💦 and sun ☀️
- I believe token launch that targets a specific group is much more attractive and sustainable to users compared with application of those already existed tokens. A fresh and precise mechanism tailored for Lens will turn out effective! Salut to @lens/bonsai team
- Collect via @lens/buttrfly using $BONSAI is active!
Make your own posts collectable or collect someone else's content - with @bonsai
Just like this post! 1000 $BONSAI, limited to 30 days.
100% of collects in goes to mirrors! #RainBonsai #PowerOfLens
- BONSAI Token Launch 🍃
Bonsai is a #DN404 token on #Polygon, for a community of builders, explorers, and early adopters of onchain social.
For every 100k $BONSAI tokens in your wallet, you also hold 1 BONSAI NFT (reveal soon)
Season 1 airdrop went to active profiles across the @lens/lens ecosystem. Seasons 2 & 3 will reward usage of $BONSAI for collects and open actions. Swap & Liquidity Providing (LP) open actions coming soon.
Collect this genesis post to show you were early - 10 MATIC / 30 days
- Join the @lens/bonsai club via @lens/orb !
https://orb.club/c/bonsai
100% of this posts collects in $BONSAI goes to mirrors!
#RainBonsai #PowerOfLens
- @lens/bonsai DN-404 livestream ✌️
https://lenspeer.com/live/0x019807-0x05e6-DA-aa52fd93
- Lens is now permissionless.
- Lens is now permissionless.
- Lens is cypherpunk
- **Opening the garden**
art by @lens/notgonnamakeit
Limited Collect for 1 MATIC
80% going to the artist, and 20% going to @lens/creators to collect and tip more creators on Lens.
- onchain followers
onchain handles
onchain posts
onchain collecting
onchain reactions
- Shadowy super coder @lens/bear
- Next spot i will shoot 100% hit rate
- Uri, Switzerland 🇨🇭
#nature #scenery #mountains #river
- ethereum this, ethereum that
- Still a long way to go for Lens if it's aiming for the cornerstone of web dapps
- Just remixed my Lenny!
~ 𝙈𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙣 @lens/lenspostxyz - 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙒𝙚𝙗3 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤
- gm ☀️
- Next goal: embrace new things without any discrimination!
- Gradully fall in to your tricks
- Gm.
Rare photo from the Daft Punk Duo unmasked 🎭
Priceless moment ✌🏽
Only 5 pieces avail for collect
- I read somewhere that most DAOs don't make it. Well to be fair 90% of the startups don't make it either and on top of that 45% of first time married couples get divorced. Regardless, DAOs should be anyways disposable until there is a form of immutable public good that doesn't need the DAO.
- gm madam
- insane
- GM beautiful creatures,
Mamma has left, needed to go to the sun mermaids to restore my mind.
They said that new golden times are coming for the Phaver and Lens world.
They are so lucky no dolphins around over there🌊 ofc they are calm🧜🏻♀️😂
(This one is a very special piece, only 10 copies available for 3 matic=) 25% ref fee)
Bubbly bye for now
- 🪶 **Focalize v2** is here!
What began as a simple extension for quickly sharing your current tab, has since evolved into a full social app.
[https://focalize.app](https://focalize.app) <-- (new website too!)
New in Focalize v2:
🔔 A full **notifications panel** in your toolbar providing the fastest way to access your Lens notifications.
✉️ DMs via **XMTP** with desktop notifications and individual windows for each conversation, allowing you to **chat in multiple threads** at once.
🪶 A brand **new editor** with wide Markdown support and **smart suggestions**, like sharing your current tab.
💻 Individual **desktop notifications** for each Lens notification.
💰 Support for setting **revenue splits** and **custom end dates** on Collects.
🦊 **WalletConnect v2** with better support for injected wallets
➕ and more...
Download now! It's free, open source, and requires no sensitive browser permissions.
- More to go, more to win
- Grass for thought #SummerOfLens
- Welcome to Yummitopia 🤤
Yummitopia is all about dreaming big when it comes to food discoverability! You've heard it time and time again, food connects us all in amazing ways!
Look out for news on our Yummi-Drops, App Updates and Community Perks 🤤
Discover Foodie Social and Join our Foodie Family!
Find out more here 👇
yummitopia.com/
- So after getting many positive response from my lens frens 🌸
Here's my next track Drizzle✌️
Only 10 Editions ⏳
5 WMATIC
I hope you guys like this one as this track is really close to me.
Share this track with your friends so they could leave their response below 💫
@stani @nader @millionrecords @mixtape @phaver @oohlala @yoginth @ryanfox @futurdelafrance @lensport
- The first single “Exploring” from my forthcoming EP is about love relations and encountering new people.
Meeting someone new can spark the urge to bond and search for a deeper connection.
The aim of this track is to recognize this feeling, and motivate to start exploring.
- Yes, blockchains are not required and I stress that actually. Star Wars doesn't need to be onchain. It's easy to prove who owns Star Wars and what that IP is, legally. When someone posts a Yoda GIF there's no confusion over who owns that IP. Star Wars GIFs and parodies and fan art do not siphon or steal value from Star Wars, they add value. The original IP gains value with its cultural relevance. The more people who see Star Wars content, in any form, the more valuable the original films become.
A blockchain enables everyone on Earth to do what Star Wars does. It's not required but it's more efficient, in the same way posting on Facebook was faster than creating a whole web page or printing a physical book.
So let's say you scrape all of my Twitter and Reddit posts, feed them into AI, and now you're creating content in my style. Where does the value go? Well, partially to you if you're creating new valuable content with it. Partially to me, depending on if I can prove I actually said those things and created the original works. It may be hard for me to even quantify that value, though, let alone capture it if I don't own the database. I can't track anything. For this reason the value goes mostly to the actual owners, Twitter and Reddit, as evidenced by the recent API fiascos. They own the database, they own the data, they capture the most value.
Now let's say you scrape all of my Lens posts, feed them into AI, and now you're creating content in my style. Where does the value go? Well, partially to you if you're creating new valuable content with it. And now that I can prove I actually said those things in an incredibly fast, public manner the value goes to the actual owner...me. I own the data, I capture the most value because it's provable what the original work is.
So the first point there is to own your data.
If you don't have a publicly provable method of doing this you're likely going to struggle with capturing and quantifying the value of your output. People and corporations are going to take your data no matter what, wherever it lives. If my data lives in Reddit's database, Reddit captures the value. If my data lives in a public database in an account I own, I capture the value.
Ok, so if you own your data onchain...how can you let people use it?
How can you let people add value to your data? Just like Star Wars doesn't pull down Yoda GIFs, if people want to turn your art into memes let them. If you want to scrape my data and put it into Generative AI go for it. More relevance is more value for me to capture.
In fact, what if there were tools that made this really easy and actually incentivized people to add value to my work? I argue artists should be making their own AI products available. Create tools which let others add value.
If you publish music on Spotify you can get listeners. Listeners add value to your music. If someone remixes your song that will add more listeners and thus more value to your original music. So how can you encourage people to remix your song? By releasing the stems. Make it easy for people to use all the parts of your song to create brand new songs. Gen AI is the same thing. Train AI on your music and let people create new music with your catalog of song data. If you, the artist, don't create this product then Spotify will.
Okay so how does this apply to social media? We're here on Lens where everyone can collect posts from each other. Why would you collect a post? It does (virtually) nothing right now. None of the above requires collecting posts. But just like releasing audio stems makes it easier for people to create, we need apps here that utilize Collects.
Give people tools which use Collects and they will be incentivized to collect.
- Create a LoFi music maker which uses your music NFTs to create new songs.
- Unlock new Besties to talk to in FriesGPT by Collecting posts.
- Combine your Collects to create new brand new Besties
So finally, the term "Followers" is a metric based on the news feed. If social media apps had no feeds you'd have no Followers. Myspace didn't have a feed, they called everyone Friends. The term "Follower" is so engrained right now only because every app has feeds.
Metrics are measurements. Instagram and Twitter internally have way more metrics than "Followers" and "View Counts" -- they choose to show us only a tiny amount of what's actually tracked.
"Collectors" and "Supporters" are new metrics starting to be used here on Lens because we own the database and we can see who is paying who, and therefore if we want to incentivize people supporting each other we can display those metrics. Orb and Buttrfly and Lensport are doing this, and I'm sure there's others as well.
So if we can Collect and use that data in apps, the metric to add would be User. If I Collect your songs and put them into an app which uses my Collects for remixing music, it's now something in the database we can track. We can clearly see I'm using your data in an app, and we can see the output. If I collect posts from @jessyfries.lens to use in FriesGPT then I'm a @jessyfries.lens user. It's a metric which can be displayed because it's onchain. It was hard to know this before, but now it's very knowable.
Hope that helps.