Dror (@drori) • Hey
Web2 during the day. Web3 at night. Berlin.
Publications
- I want to sell text content (possibly also video) via crypto. something like substack paid feature would be good already. any web3 solutions?
- Any music NFT platforms that are still active? I used Royal which had some NFTs by NAS but they're dead.
- On @orbapp.lens you can login using your desktop by scanning a QR! Many ledger users use the orb app seamlessly!
- Just tried to solve a captcha and it's actually getting hard. As AI gets smarter, captchas get harder to crack. It's clear that we need to find a new solution for human-verification tests soon.
Are there any exciting social identity verification systems in development? Proof of Humanity didn't seem to catch on, so what's next?
- Eric Wall is not currently on Lenster, but I would like to draw attention to his project Orb. Although he is focused on Ordinals and creating Tap Root Wizards, I am particularly intrigued by his work on Orb, which incorporates a **Harberger Tax system for NFTs**.
Check it out: https://lekevicius.notion.site/Orb-FAQ-215f0cca62c1483183df5845e5dbf419
- **Where is ChatGPT in the Gartner Hype Cycle?**
It's only been 40 days since ChatGPT has been released, but it feels like we have reached the peak of inflated expectations. As I use it more, I experience more cases of the AI failing my expectations. Of course it's still very impressive but I start finding more of its shortcomings.
- ORB PSA:
Careful when posting photos you’ve taken at home
The iOS app posts your photos’ longitude and latitude (EXIF data)
CC @orbapp.lens
- Some positive effects from all of this:
We're seeing the largest Bitcoin outflows from centralized exchanges IN HISTORY.
(Source: https://insights.glassnode.com/the-week-onchain-week-46-2022/)
- Memes about blue checkmarks have been showing us how easy it is to create #disinformation—spreading falsehoods intentionally. **I wonder if Lens can solve these problems:**
💥 Disinfo costs $100B+ globally to tackle. Social media giants benefit from increased engagement via ad revenue.
📈 Content moderation is a game of whack-a-mole. It costs Twitter billions vs. the pennies it costs to create.
🏘️ Reddit’s model of communities with unpaid moderators works *a bit* better. But still needs centralized moderation to tackle serious issues, and you still get echo-chambers where disinfo is rampant.
🕸️ It’s impossible for any single network to see how ideas spread on Web 2.0. For example, we can’t see how a synthetic idea that blooms on Parler or 4chan, spreads to Reddit, then reaches boomers on Facebook, while other milk the noise around it on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
🌱 Imagine being able to see how your own social graph is influencing you. I'm also tired of fake profiles and foreign/state actors.
Image source: David Chavalarias (2022) http://toxicdata.chavalarias.org/images.html
- Everytime we stray from decentralization and trustlessness, we are eventually reminded why we need them.
Today we saw yet again why we need DeFi. I hope Lens will show us why we need the same principles for social media.
- This is exactly what we built at ETHBogota. We built an SDK for reviews that lets users accumulate a reputation for posting useful and good/bad reputations. On top of that we integrated projects like worldcoin to verify that someone is a human. Most interestingly, we used the Lens social graph the customise the ranking/relevance of reviews based on the proximity of the reviewer in your social graph. You can check out the showcase here: https://ethglobal.com/showcase/trustless-pilot-dn8m9
- Online customer reviews are deeply flawed. I wonder if Lens could provide a solution.
Some of the biggest problems:
-everyone reads reviews. Almost nobody writes them.
-negativity effect: customers with a negative experience are more likely to share it
-big economical incentive to fake reviews. Reviews are a major ranking factor for Google, Amazon...
-Humans have different tastes. We like and dislike different things. A lot of the places I find cool are hell for my dad and vice versa. Most review platforms mash all of our opinions together. Imagine reviews adjusted by your social graph.
- What will be the first killer application for Lens?
Bitcoin's first killer app was Silk Road. Despite all the UX disadvantages, users went through the trouble of using Bitcoin because its decentralization enabled censorship resistance.
What does Lens enable that makes it worth going through all the trouble of using it over Twitter/Instagram/...?