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Hi guys we are happy to anounce that we got accepted to the community plan on gitbook.com meaning we will be able to focus on creating educational content for Lens Ecosystem with the ability to for example get the feedback from you by the newly implemented "Was this page helpful" widget that was implemented thx to this plan Thx Gitbook 💚we apricate your support
Hi guys friendly reminder that at our https://discord.molens.xyz/ you have a channel "questions" where you can ask any question and if you feel like it is a question to dumb to ask then you can simply use /confess "question" and no one will know that it was you asking in first place :)
@lenspedia.lens has an AI searchbar implemented meaning once it will be feeded with all the app guides you will be able to simply ask it any Lens related question and it will help you out with it if you are an app or tool developer and want your app to be added contact @danisnearby.lens at https://t.me/danisnearby
New guide has just landed "How to create a token gated post" on @lenster.lens and @lensport.lens You can learn that here : https://docs.lenspedia.xyz/getting-started/how-to-guides/token-gated-posts
Hi guys new tool has joined the Lensvert together with it a new guide to Lenspedia was introduced learn what is and how to use #LensEcho a discord bot to never miss a post again by @benbaessler.lens in newest guide writen by him https://docs.lenspedia.xyz/getting-started/tools/lens-echo
**The illusion of numbers by @danisnearby.lens and @luduvigo.lens** Stop obsessing over the numbers on your social media account! They are just an abstraction of the impact you have on the community. Faking them means you don't care about who sees your content but just want to please yourself. Stats reflect how good your content is, so if you fake them, you won't get feedback on what you should change or improve. Sure, having a high number of followers might make your account look more legit, but it's a cheap trick. Instead, let's work towards creating meaningful conversations about the future. As early adopters and futurists, we should be focusing on building diverse communities where we can disagree and challenge each other. Don't fall into the trap of valuing fake numbers over real engagement and follow the below tips to take your account to next level How to grow on Lens: Episode 0 to 500 followers by @luduvigo.lens : https://luduvigo.substack.com/p/how-to-grow-on-lens-episode-0-to-500
@youfolio.lens Explained by @danisnearby.lens Tired of the same old ways of collecting? Youfolio.lens by Lensport.lens is the perfect solution for you! It's an innovative way to add value to your collection of posts and enhance your social media experience. Here's how it works: Step 1: Sign Up Signing up for Youfolio.io is a breeze! All you need is a handle and wallet to connect to the website, just like any other Lens app. Once you've signed up, you'll be ready to start browsing the extensive collection of creators and their "Creator Tokens." Step 2: Token Wrapping Browse through the "Tokens" of creators and find a post that you want to wrap. You can use the "Show Only My Items" feature to display only the items you own. If you don't own any posts that qualify for collector tokens (the first NFT minted from a post), you can try collecting one or buying it instead. Step 3: Make an Offer With a collectional offer, you can make an offer on any post. However, it's best to find one you like to avoid disappointment. So take your time and browse through the collections until you find the perfect post. Step 4: Wrap Your NFTs Once you've added the post to your collection, it's time to wrap your NFTs. Wrapping your NFTs is easy. Simply click the "Wrap" button, confirm two transactions allowing NFT spend and sending the NFT, and your post will be sent to a Youfolio contract. You will then receive a wrapped NFT that you can sell and get voting power in the DAO. Step 5: Join the Creators DAO The Creators DAOs are hosted on top of tally.xyz and are used to make decisions about the Youfolio DAO. By joining the Creators DAO, you can shape the future of the Youfolio <creatorname> DAO and influence how it grows and evolves. In summary, Youfolio.lens is a new way to understand post collection that allows you to add value to your collection and get more out of your social media experience. Useful links: Website: https://youfolio.io/ Lens Profile: https://lensvert.xyz/u/youfolio Contract: https://polygonscan.com/address/0x6A284fE22F879e860a2F4c83cF1F6DE1aAa82F59 Disable notifications on collection offers : https://youfolio.io/collectionNotifications @stani.lens @youfolio.lens telegram chat : https://guild.xyz/stanidao
#Lenstopia onboarding series - **part 5**. What’s next? **IT’S UP TO YOU.** 🌷 Alpha 1 for today: maybe consider collecting in the next 24h. Alpha reminder: Steph will be raffled between all #collectors of (at least) one of the “#Lenstopia onboarding series” posts. (ending in 24h) THANKS A LOT to everyone supporting the “#Lenstopia onboarding series” and building on #Lenstopia. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. Feedback, as always, more than welcome 🌷 Part 4 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x74 Part 3 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x6b Part 2 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x64 Part 1 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x56 Part 0 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x4e #LnTpColl00Stories #LnTpScol00Lenstopia00Onboarding Unique name: #LnTpNam00Onboarding00Series1005 Instructor: #LnTpNam00Ekene00Lhamo ------------------ The #Lenstopia onboarding series is a collaboration of #Lenstopia with #LensAcademy. The goal of the 5 day series is to explain #Lenstopia and enable everyone to participate. 14th to 18th of November. Every Day 6pm UTC. The #Lenstopia onboarding series is supported by AlensΞ your friendly lens social media consulting. @alense.lens
#Lenstopia onboarding series - **part 4**. **Inspiration & Motivation** Today Lenstopia is coined by AI generated images impressively orchestrated by @cavernaeremita.lens . That’s fantastic but far from what we can build on Lenstopia. The simple “Lenstopia band” example from part 3 (https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x6b) scratches a bit on the surface and already brings a few ideas beyond AI generated images to life: + #music, of course. + story telling (in all imaginable forms) + conceptual design (tour plan, festival, how to create a band) + #fashion (#merch) Imagine using other tools (like #briq https://briq.construction/builder) to build on Lenstopia. Or, closer to the status quo, build a collection or scenery in #pixelart or create #memes to tell stories. Wen #LnTpColl00Memes ? **Why might creators consider building (on) Lenstopia?** First of all I think it’s fun to play around with Lenstopia. It’s in my opinion fun to play around with #lens and Lenstopia adds another layer of abstraction on top of lens. Lenstopia = fun times fun. qued. 🌷 #Artists might be interested in co-creating the story of Lenstopia with their ideas/art/skills and doing so increase the visibility of their art (and themselves as artists). #Game designer maybe get inspired by the characters, attributes, places and translate something into a small or huge game (-> https://bibliothecadao.xyz/). People might like the #community and creating something together with others. E.g. writing a story (or book) together - #permissionless and #decentralised. #Pxls with text instead of pixels. Software #developers might see missing pieces to increase the #UX of aspects of Lenstopia or add features. Like a #map with all Lenstopia elements or a citizen/pet/… generator, a Lenstopia #marketplace, a digital fashion store, a fries #shop (with #tokenised fries - huge in #2123, not sure about 2022 though)), a real estate agency, … , ai animated citizens. Alpha for today: give it a try. Start small, join others, reach out, have fun. What do you think? Did I miss something? What would you like to build? Feedback, as always, more than welcome 🌷 (thanks to @cavernaeremita.lens and https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x0f85-0x062c for input to part 4) Part 5 will follow tomorrow. 6pm UTC. Part 3 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x6b Part 2 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x64 Part 1 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x56 Part 0 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x4e #LnTpColl00Stories #LnTpScol00Lenstopia00Onboarding Unique name: #LnTpNam00Onboarding00Series1004 Instructor: #LnTpNam00Ekene00Lhamo ------------------ The #Lenstopia onboarding series is a collaboration of #Lenstopia with #LensAcademy. The goal of the 5 day series is to explain #Lenstopia and enable everyone to participate. 14th to 18th of November. Every Day 6pm UTC. The #Lenstopia onboarding series is supported by AlensΞ your friendly lens social media consulting. @alense.lens
#Lenstopia onboarding series - part 3. **Let’s Build** Good things first: There is no right or wrong, there are only ideas and implementations of ideas that are easier or harder to build on top. I’d like to start with you today the first #Lenstopia band. Not sure about the name of the #band yet, nor the #genre, actually I don’t even know how many artists we should have in our band, nor which instruments they are supposed to play. That’s something we will figure out soon. I know that I love drums. So the character I will create today is a drummer - playing in a band. Idea ☑️ `(If you haven’t already now would be a great time to take a look at **part 2** of the series. You’ll find there, besides others, a detailed explanation of the #hashtag (structure). @cavernaeremita.lens published yesterday an awesome graphical overview of the different #Lenstopia collections and attributes (https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x1d6e-0x0519). Whenever you have issues wrapping your head around something in your creation process Eremita's miro board might help you out. For sure you can DM me if you have questions anytime as well 🌷 or even better ask your question in a post tagging #Lenstopia @ekene.lens)` Speaking in Lenstopia terms I’ve just decided to create a new #Lenstopia Citizen (#LnTpColl00Citizens - “main collection”). **What’s next?** I need a “unique name” for my Citizen: Steph Moore (#LnTpNam00Steph00Moore) And that’s it. In theory we could call it a day here. We have a collection and a (unique) name. For our purpose, creating a member of the first #Lenstopia band, we should probably add some more attributes: How should Steph “looks like”: I’ll go with human (#LnTpLoo00human). Other examples (!) are alien, android, hologram, zombie. Where should my citizen live? Most of life happens today in Lenstercity (#LnTpCit00Lenstercity) but I like the idea Steph will become a citizen of Orbcity (#LnTpCit00Orbcity - “City”), Uptown (#LnTpGeo00Uptown - “Geolocation”). How is Steph like? The origin template (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fRVfQeXV50OL5qW5ZSp9gjhlC9tnNV-vG1bkgv49ImY/edit) uses “Vocation”, “Traits”, “Faction” and “Special Ability” to describe citizens. Steph is into technology (#LnTpVoc00technology), ecology (#LnTpVoc00ecology) and art (#LnTpVoc00art). Traits - can further be described as impulsive (#LnTpTra00impulsive), kind (#LnTpTra00kind) and musical (LnTpTra00musical). Is neutral when it comes to faction -> #LnTpFac00none. And Steph’s special ability is playing the drums like Dave Grohl but 130 years later. #LnTpSpa00drums . I just created a “new” special ability. Will it work? Idk, we will see. Next step social relationships: Who are Steph’s friends, family, pets, …? Relatives: don’t know yet … Best friend: Steph’s best friend is #LnTpNam00Anita00Moon Rival: not known yet, maybe there will be one as soon as another drummer wants to join the band. Pet: none yet Now we have covered all parts from the origin template. For musicians it might make sense to add some more attributes like Favourite music: #LnTpNam00Indie Favourite band: #LnTpNam00The00Indexes @indexes.lens Favourite instrument: #LnTpNam00Drums Favourite location: #LnTpNam00Club00Backstage We’ve created some Lenstopia elements attributed to Steph, floating in the Lenstopia universe without being reflected in the Lenstopia #hashtag structure (like #LnTpNam00Club00Backstage). Everyone can build now on top of the new elements. Or I can do that myself, of course: Create the club backstage and add it to the collection: #LnTpColl00RealEstate. What’s next for Steph and the band? Not too long ago a fantastic project started, finally someone is talking about (@chriscomrie.lens https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x011f55-0x0324) ;-), that helps a ton in creating an image of Steph. Imo it’s great if citizens have an image or more, but it’s not necessary. For example @memester.lens created #LnTpNam00Meme00Ster who doesn’t have an image associated yet (afaik). Images are by far not the only creative element you can add to citizens. You can write stories, create music, videos, whatever content you have fun creating. If you have added the creative element to your Lenstopia post the next question is should it be a 1:1 or should there be more collectable? Imho it makes sense to have 1:1s of citizens, pets and real estate. **The band** It would be awesome if we can create a #Lenstopia band together. You could for example create musicians (citizens), create or attribute music, create a tour plan + poster, merchandise, write background stories, create s rehearsal room, …. 🌷 Alpha 1 for today: I will collect and raffle #LnTpNam00Steph00Moore at the end of the week between everyone who collected at least one of the "#Lenstopia onboarding series" posts. Alpha 2 for today: read alpha from part 2. That's it for today. If you have any questions, issues creating your #Lenstopia ... whatever you would like to build. PLEASE REACH OUT. Write a post and tag #Lesntopia @ekene.lens, DM me whatever you feel comfortable wit. Feedback, as always, more than welcome 🌷 ( @punkess.lens put out a tutorial in tl;dr length https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x0f85-0x0360 and @cavernaeremita.lens replied with some helpful thoughts) Part 4 will follow tomorrow. 6pm UTC. Part 2 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x64 Part 1 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x56 Part 0 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x4e #LnTpColl00Stories #LnTpScol00Lenstopia00Onboarding Unique name: #LnTpNam00Onboarding00Series1003 Instructor: #LnTpNam00Ekene00Lhamo ------------------ The #Lenstopia onboarding series is a collaboration of #Lenstopia with #LensAcademy. The goal of the 5 day series is to explain #Lenstopia and enable everyone to participate. 14th to 18th of November. Every Day 6pm UTC. The #Lenstopia onboarding series is supported by AlensΞ your friendly lens social media consulting. @alense.lens
**NFT Utilities - the Memester.lens case study by** @memester.lens **&** #LensAcademy In the previous post, we explained the concept of NFT Utilities. Here, we --go through a case study: how I (Memester.lens) created multiple communities on Lens and used NFT Utilities to deepen connections. I define 'community' as a set of individuals connected through an NFT relationship, via a 'Follow NFT' or 'Collect NFT'. For those who don't know Memester.lens, I have been on Lens since the early days, creating Web3 related memes. I then recently decided to launch two communities: 1. Memester Community (everyone can access it by 'fee collecting' this post for 2 WMATIC (https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x5805-0x039f ) 2. Memester Sponsors (everyone can access it by 'fee collecting' this post for 20 WMATIC (https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x5805-0x039e) Importantly, I stated upfront how proceeds will be used: to organize a Memester x Lens event. In addition, there is one community we all have from day 1: our Followers. So that gives me three communities. People's attention is limited, they only pay to join communities if it's 'worth it' (even if the paid amount is low in this case). NFT Utilities are a great way to show that we are serious about the communities we create, it allows content creators to reward collectors for joining the community, and to deepen the creator <> community relationship. I created multiple NFT utilities which members can access and plan to launch more: 1. Access to my monthly newsletter 2. Access to a token-gated Telegram chat 3. An exclusive Memester T-shirt 4. 1-1 calls with me 5. A party in a Memester penthouse I rented in the Metaverse 6. Omni-channel advertising for their projects I set different access levels for the three communities: - Memester Followers can access 1. - Memester Community can access 1, 2, 5 - Memester Sponsors can access all utilities One of the main complexities I faced was that most are not familiar with the concept of NFT Utilities yet, this is something quite new or previously loosely defined (i.e., not really labeled yet). Hence why i am pushing on the education front here . The second complexity is that the information gets lost in a social network that is purely feed based, so multiple people collected the NFTs and then join the community, but then missed on some utilities e.g., they missed the Metaverse event because they did not see my announcement in the feed. Having dedicated spaces for communities on Lens is critical in order to see more communities emerge and solidify (now the Memester Community has a chat on telegram, it's already a nice step but ultimately we want to bring that on Lens!) The final complexity is that not all utilities are relevant for everyone. For instance someone texted me to say that she was not interested in the T-shirt, and asked if she could send it to someone else. In the future this should become possible, as Utilities should become NFTs themselves that can be transferred/sold/bought to other folks - within or outside of the community, depending on how permissions are set. In terms of tools, I used https://www.tropee.com/ to create utilities. Super easy to use, and a large library of utilities. Everyone can create NFT utilities, it's 100% free! More info here: shorturl.at/COSX8 If anyone has questions, feel free to DM, happy to help! **Memester Community:** @nader.lens, @readyplayer1984.lens, @pclayne.lens, @samthingwrong.lens, @carstenpoetter.lens, @nilesh.lens, @ricomueller.lens, @punkess.lens, @raphaelh.lens, @gotenks.lens, @nelsonrodmar.lens, @trajectory.lens, @magnaa.lens, @dineshpinto.lens, @jlsachse.lens, @DanIsNearby.lens.lens, @matte.lens, @zombieshepherd.lens, @cryptianocoinaldo.lens, @mattwilson.lens, @jerre.lens, @lakshman.lens, @90002.lens, @fancybearsmeta.lens, @chriscomrie.lens, @stateofmarket.lens, @melodydee.lens, @nicopollux.lens, @490094.lens, @dineshpinto.lens, @shivam.lens, @onlyfeed.lens, @rememe.lens, @papadari.lens, @Memester-xyz.lens, @davidev.lens, @chaoticmonk.lens, @yashgarg.lens, @kipto.lens, @grams.lens, @timjeffries.lens **Memester Sponsors:** @samthingwrong.lens, @carstenpoetter.lens, @nilesh.lens, @stemscto.lens, @gotenks.lens, @raphaelh.lens, @nelsonrodmar.lens, @Memester-xyz.lens, @pedromonte.lens, @crekto.lens, @matte.lens, @mattwilson.lens, @newfuture.lens, @jerre.lens, @dydymoon.lens, @stateofmarket.lens, @chriscomrie.lens, @490094.lens, @davidev.lens If you want to join the Memester Communities, collect these posts: 1. Memester Community: https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x5805-0x039f 2. Memester Sponsors: https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x5805-0x039e And then claim your utilities: 1. Memester Community: https://memesterlens-collect-927.tropee.com/ 2. Memester Sponsors: https://memesterlens-collect-926.tropee.com/
#Lenstopia onboarding series - **part 2**. **Getting Started** Before creating a #Lenstopia character, it might be helpful to have a look at what already exists. Top 2 resources to start with: + **@lenstopia.lens** (mirroring Lenstopia related posts) + **#lenstopia** (click on the link or type “lenstopia” into the search bar) @lenstopia.lens shows the existing Lenstopia collections on its profile page: #LnTpColl00Citizens #LnTpColl00Pets #LnTpColl00Places #LnTpColl00RealEstate #LnTpColl00Lore #LnTpColl00Consumables #LnTpColl00Art #LnTpColl00Wearables #LnTpColl00Utilities #LnTpColl00Stories Maybe we start with demystifying the #hashtags : `Why hashtags? -> hashtags are as of right now the only #lens native indexing feature` `Why "00" everywhere? -> “00” is a hashtag friendly separator` `LnTp -> Lenstopia` `Coll -> collection (type)` `Pets -> collection name (type name)` Clicking (or searching for) the hashtag #LnTpColl00Pets will show all content tagged as pets collection. At the time of writing 8 pets (7 1:1 created by @cavernaeremita.lens and 1 open edition created by @natem.lens ) exist. Every element of a collection has a - potentially infinite - number of attributes. Using “established” attributes makes life easier but that’s up to the creator. Beautiful Sabah Li ( https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x1d6e-0x024d ) for example has the following attributes associated: **Important**: `1 - only hashtags are active attributes, inactive attributes (without hashtag) are only listed for inspiration: e.g.` `LnTpLoo00dog : not active -> Sabah is not a dog` `#LnTpLoo00cat : active -> Sabah is a cat` `2 - the attributes have categories as well but that’s only for human readability. (Nobody needs that in 2123 ;-))` Collection #LnTpColl00Pets Name #LnTpNam00Sabah00Li A: Looks like LnTpLoo00dog #LnTpLoo00cat LnTpLoo00pig LnTpLoo00mouse LnTpLoo00frog LnTpLoo00bunny B: City LnTpCit00Unknown #LnTpCit00Lenstercity C: Geolocation LnTpGeo00Uptown LnTpGeo00Midtown LnTpGeo00Downtown #LnTpGeo00Countryside LnTpGeo00Unknown D: Vocation LnTpVoc00none #LnTpVoc00companion LnTpVoc00guard LnTpVoc00working E: Traits LnTpTra00altruistic #LnTpTra00selfish #LnTpTra00loyal LnTpTra00impulsive #LnTpTra00kind LnTpTra00abrasive F: Faction #LnTpFac00none LnTpFac00heroes LnTpFac00villains G: Special ability #LnTpSpa00none LnTpSpa00jumper LnTpSpa00velocity H: Known social relationships - you can tag already existing characters posted by you or by other creators, just enter his unique hashtag I: Tutor: #LnTpNam00Dikla00Madhu J: Relatives K: Best friend L: Rival M: Other information - you can tag anything created by you or by other participants, just enter his unique hashtag, examples below N: Favourite food K: Favourite place You can do the same with every other collection. If you click on #LnTpColl00Stories you will find every post related to the “#Lenstopia onboarding series”. Soon there might be short stories, lyrics or educational content as well. If you are interested in #Lenstopia from a collectible point of view you will realise that there is quite some demand for #Lenstopia content. As of today not a single #Lenstopia 1:1 is available. @lensport.lens maybe? Unfortunately lensport doesn’t support search for content / hashtags yet so it’s quite challenging to find #Lenstopia content. To save you time, I tried to find 1:1s on lensport but there is, at the time of writing, not a single one for sale. I’ll come back to that in a minute. What else: @molens.lens and @59401.lens created an oncyber gallery for Lenstopia 1:1s https://oncyber.io/lenstopia . If "buy" is not an option for a Lenstopia character, there is only "build" left. And that's exactly what we will do tomorrow. **>>> PLEASE write in the comments what you would like to build tomorrow. <<<** On that note, see you tomorrow 🌷. Alpha 1 for today: you might want to take a look at https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x1d6e-0x0295 and if you really dig deep … Alpha 2 for today: If you would like to collect this post, consider collect your mirror. Feedback, as always, more than welcome 🌷 Part 3 will follow tomorrow. 6pm UTC. Part 1 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x56 Part 0 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x4e #LnTpColl00Stories #LnTpScol00Lenstopia00Onboarding Unique name: #LnTpNam00Onboarding00Series1002 Instructor: #LnTpNam00Ekene00Lhamo ------------------ The #Lenstopia onboarding series is a collaboration of #Lenstopia with #LensAcademy. The goal of the 5 day series is to explain #Lenstopia and enable everyone to participate. 14th to 18th of November. Every Day 6pm UTC. The #Lenstopia onboarding series is supported by AlensΞ your friendly lens social media consulting. @alense.lens
#Lenstopia onboarding series - **part 1**. **What is Lenstopia ?** I like to think of Lenstopia as a huge empty **stage** with a **telephone book**. What you do on stage 🤷‍♀️ … you can tell stories, exhibit paintings, photos, perform, sing, educate, entertain … . You can do that alone or you can take the telephone book and call others to join and you create together. Another mental model explaining Lenstopia that might resonate with you - if you are familiar with #Loot - is: “think of project Loot with empty loot boxes” (@punkess.lens) Technically Lenstopia is “an open universe with no pre-defined roles and rules” ( @carstenpoetter.lens ) structured in #hashtags taking place in #2123. 2123 is probably the most underrated aspect of Lenstopia. Besides that we can celebrate a lenstastic #anniversary next year, thinking life 100 years in the #future erases all limits. Pets might look exactly as today or completely different, do humans still exist and if yes, how might their daily life look like? If not, what exists instead and do they have pets 😉? Is distance still a limiting factor, how will communication take place, what about music, food, traveling, relationships, sport? @punkess.lens described Lenstopia as “a #platform creators can use to build on top. The platform is defined by the label (Lenstopia) and the structure (hashtags) enabling everyone to build on top of everyone else.” I tried my best to explain Lenstopia to a 10 year old: “Lenstopia is telling your favourite stories on @lensprotocol. You can create animals, unicorns mythical creatures, robots - or humans and describe them: are they nice and friendly, like orange juice or coke, play soccer or guitar, have friends, pets, do they go to school, have kids, live on a planet far away or in your lunchbox, have long hair or blue hair. You can tell your story in words (write) or sing, paint the characters, their stories or create videos. Whatever you would like.” (thanks for the challenge @gotenks.lens ) Once upon a time ... @cavernaeremita.lens published on Sep 29, 2022 a post starting with “Hi! I will present you with an idea. LENSTOPIA It's a game. A conceptual framework, a random science fiction generator, a creative exercise.” ( https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x1d6e-0x01a8 ) I’d like to finish the first part of the “#Lenstopia onboarding series” with my favourite quote of the post: “[Lenstopia is] encouraging the inclusive participation of anyone through creativity, in a community that creates, collects, interacts and invents stories …” I hope the post helps you to get a better understanding of #Lenstopia. If you have any questions please comment below, maybe your questions and answers help others (as well). Feedback more than welcome 🌷 Part 2 will follow tomorrow. 6pm UTC. Part 0 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x015e7a-0x4e #LnTpColl00Stories #LnTpScol00Lenstopia00Onboarding Unique name: #LnTpNam00Onboarding00Series1001 Instructor: #LnTpNam00Ekene00Lhamo ------------------ The #Lenstopia onboarding series is a collaboration of #Lenstopia with #LensAcademy. The goal of the 5 day series is to explain #Lenstopia and enable everyone to participate. 14th to 18th of November. Every Day 6pm UTC. The #Lenstopia onboarding series is supported by AlensΞ your friendly lens social media consulting. @alense.lens
**What are NFT utilities by** @memester.lens **&** #LensAcademy In the below, we explore the concept of NFT Utilities. As we know, 2021 saw a surge in NFTs, with even 300+ large Web2 brands launching NFT collections - and this number keeps growing every day! A noticeable example here is Nike, who just announced their Web3 platform ‘.Swoosh’ in mid-November 2022. So far, NFTs have mostly been speculative assets, but now brands, communities, and other content creators are exploring what they can do with these NFTs after issuance. In other words, they explore post-mint experiences. Platforms like Tropee.com offer allow content creators, influencers, and brands to create ‘NFT utilities’ that NFT holders can claim. ‘NFT Utilities’ are gifts/benefits/perks that can be created by content creators and distributed to their communities (i.e. NFT holders) e.g., Nike can issue a collection of 10K NFTs and then decide that all NFT holders will have access to a 10% discount on NIKE products, invite them to the annual NIKE Summit, or to co-create new shoes. While some platforms already have a library of NFT Utilities (cf. illustration below), it is still early days and content creators will come up with many new types of utilities for their communities. On Lens specifically, we have two main types of NFTs: 1. Follower NFT 2. Collect NFT Content creators can therefore leverage NFT Utilities in at least two ways: 1. Create NFT Utilities that their followers can claim (good for utilities that target a large audience, like a newsletter, a gated Telegram chat, an AMA session, an airdrop, or tickets for a large event) 2. Make some posts, add a Fee Collect, and those who collected the post can claim the utilities (good for more targeted utilities, like merchandise, ticket for a small private event, or a 1-1 call) The integration with guild.xyz is a great example of NFT Utilities: only NFT holders can access some channels such as Telegram or Discord! It goes even further: roles can be assigned based on NFTs held like Follow, Collect (and also Web2 stuff e.g., being a member of the Discord). We could imagine having the same for Githubs, shared documents, etc. You can visit our https://guild.xyz/molens to look at an example of an NFT-gated community on Lens. For more information, https://www.tropee.com/ has a great blog about NFT Utilities, where you can find case studies, trending utilities, etc.
**How to start using Lenster.xyz by** @danisnearby.lens **and** #LensAcademy Hello everyone, in today's post I'll go over what Lenster is, how to set it up, and how to use it. Hello everyone, in today's post I'll go over what Lenster is, how to set it up, and how to use it. **What is** @lenster.lens 🌿 #Lenster is a decentralized and permissionless social media app built on top of Lens Protocol by @yoginth.lens with help of people from the community. If you want to you can help the process as well and be rewarded with a POAP you can read more about it here https://github.com/lensterxyz/lenster/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md or in our future post. **Settings ⚙** If you edited your profile using the previous guide, "Starting with lensfrens.xyz," you don't need to make any changes because lens protocol edits everything on all the apps. However, this does not negate the fact that Lenster settings can be useful. To access them you can visit https://lenster.xyz/settings after you will enter the website you can use it to check your profile ID, reset your DM encryption key, and do other things just don't get close to the Danger Zone as it burns your .lens handle and is unreversable . **Lenster collect post settings 📕** You can change the collect limit and price before publishing your post to allow people to collect it and support you. If your post contains a media element such as an image, video, or sound, that element will become the NFT otherwise, it will be an image with post text content. After the post will be published people will be able to claim it directly from Lenster.xyz or from Lensport.io . If you wont change the collect settings it will be unlimited and free to claim. **Lenster reply to post settings** 💬 By default, only friends and their friends will be able to respond to your posts however, you can change this setting before posting to make replying more or less accessible to people. Thanks for reading; have a nice day. You can collect this post to support us and use it as a pre-lesson since we'll be discussing collectible content and @lensport.lens next 😉
**Make the most with** @orbapp.lens **by** @timjeffries.lens **&** #LensAcademy Hey Lens Frens, today we will help you make the most of the mobile app ORB, a beautifully made, decentralised social media app for iOS and Android (https://orb.ac/). It's currently in beta but if you ask the right people you'll likely be able to get your hands on an invite. 😉 When the app starts up you'll get some friendly welcome screens and after swiping through those you'll land on the feed page. This isn't customised to you yet as you need to log in so hit that little silhouette icon in the top right. You need MetaMask or Rainbow wallet configured on your mobile device to connect your wallet. Once you've connected your wallet you're able to "Login with Lens" and the real fun begins. 🥳 In the top right now you should see your Lens PFP, click that and let's explore the menu. **Profile** will take you to your profile which is likely already somewhat configured if you've set up lensfrens.xyz or perhaps lenster.xyz. You can edit your profile from there and that's also the second item in the menu. **Edit Profile** takes you to a screen with a bunch of options unique to ORB. Here you can add **Project, Skills, Experience and Education.** These are all ways for you to add to your profile and share on chain credentials in the form of NFT or POAP for your contacts to explore. You can also edit your lens profile from this screen by tapping the Edit button to the right of your username. These changes will be reflected across the Lens Protocol ecosystem. **Rate App** just takes you to the app store so you can show them some love. **Settings** strangely doesn't actually hold any settings, just links off to About and Policy information. You can delete your account here but if you do that then you're sadly NGMI. Now you're up and running on ORB you can start enjoying the excellent UX and posting, commenting, liking and mirroring on Lens. The navigation bar at the bottom contains 4 sections. From left to right they are: **Home** - your feed of posts, mirrors and likes. **Search** - this enables you to search for profiles or content in posts. **Learn** - something unique to ORB where you can enrol in short courses and receive an NFT to certify your completion. **Notifications** - here your new follows, likes, comments and mirrors are reported. A couple of points to note: **•** ORB doesn't do collects or follows where the author has set a fee so you'll get an error if you try and perform those actions from within ORB. **•** ORB doesn't have DMs yet All up ORB is an excellent way to use Lens Protocol on mobile. It's in constantly development with a keen eye for design and UX. It's only getting better and we're in the fun stage of being able to support the developer and contribute to the improvement of the app as it evolves.
**Starting with lensfrens.xyz 🌿 by @danisnearby.lens & #LensAcademy** Hello everyone, in today's post we will go over lensfrens.xyz, an app that allows you to track the basics of your profile on top of #Lens Protocol. To begin editing, navigate to lensfrens.xyz/`yourname`.lens and log in with your wallet. After that an "Edit Profile" button should appear which you need to click. **Visual Aspects** 🖼️ After you've completed the steps in the first paragraph, it's time to focus on the visual aspects of your profile, such as your profile picture and a banner. To change your profile picture, click on the camera next to your current profile picture and select an NFT of your choice, or click "upload file" to use a non NFT pfp. Good job now your profile picture has been updated it is essential for your lens growth as people will connect you not only to your name but also to your visuals. Another visually appealing aspect of your profile Cover Picture, also known as Banner, is optional, but it is beneficial to have one. To set it up, simply scroll down a little and click "Update your cover picture" and select a file that will be your new cover picture. **About you** 🌱 The next important thing to do on your lens profile is to let people know who you are. You can do this by choosing a catchy nickname and entering it in the "Name" field. Keep in mind that it can only be 30 letters long and that it is just a display name and most stuff such as searches and links will use your .lens handle. After you have entered your name, you can proceed to the "Location" field, where you do not need to enter a geo location and can enter anything you want, such as a project that you are working on, a funny mythical place connected to you, or it can remain blank. Last but not least Bio where you have up to 200 characters to describe your mission, make a joke, type random characters to pique people's interest, or do whatever else you want as long as you are respectful and do not break any rules **Links** 🔗 The link tab is used to redirect your visitors to other places such as your website project or favorite restourant. Additionally to what youy type there ORB uses it to describe your skills and portfolio, which you will be able to read more about in an upcoming article. **Settings ⚙️** In the setting tab located next to profile tab you can set your profile to be default if you hold more than one lens handle, and specify who can follow you by limiting people to people who already minted lens profile. who will pay to follow, or set the settings that anyone can follow you. Thank you for reading, feel free to leave comments or ask questions under this post or at https://discord.molens.xyz . GL & HF while growing your #Lens Profile.
**The importance of your** #Lens **profile by** @timjeffries.lens & #LensAcademy Hi Lens Frens, today we will explore why configuring your profile correctly is important and how it will help you to grow your connections. Configuring your profile on Lens is essential because it helps other users understand a little about you, confirm that you are not spam and decide whether they want to follow you. It is the first place users look for more information after encountering you on Lens. You can choose how much information you would like to share. You might like to be anonymous or you may want to share your real name. Either way setting up your profile is the key first step to using the platform. You don’t need to share lots of information, but whatever you do share should be helpful and engaging. A profile picture is critical as it sets your user apart from all others. This is especially important if you would like users to easily recognise you from other platforms where you have used that same profile picture and username. Your profile can also share links to your other digital presences and to projects you’d like to promote. Having an attractive and engaging profile is a powerful marketing tool that all users can access. Every time you make a post that people find interesting your profile is right there for them to explore. Configure it with this in mind to help your fellow Lens Frens and grow your network. 🚀 Keep an eye out for our upcoming posts in which we will explain how to set up Profiles on popular Lens Protocol apps.