Rohit Kumar (@rohukr) • Hey
making films
Publications
- with the new wallet feature, I do feel rich now
creator tools to the moooooooon🌙
- 10th march, 2024
Late night posts, and learning to show up everyday
- I just claimed my $BONSAI reward on @lens/orb!
- even if you’re not doing anything, you’re still growing in some way
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@lens/rohufilms
- life is a bliss these days
- if everyone wants to earn money while they create content
creator economy in web3 might be the only reason for mass adoption, that’s also my opinion and skewed knowledge.
also love this license rights feature, has a lot of potential in long terms
let’s see how my film does here;
- if everyone wants to earn money while they create content
creator economy in web3 might be the only reason for mass adoption, that’s also my opinion and skewed knowledge.
also love this license rights feature, has a lot of potential in long terms
let’s see how my film does here;
- just a little update : I am leaving @orbapp.lens
september for me, will be the last month on orb
over the last year I’ve had the best first hand experience of building a startup in web3 and I am very convinced that it is inevitable.
from learning to know about peoples’ psychology around social media to making app update videos, I really want to thank my team @nilesh.lens and @kipto.lens for providing me a playground to experiment.
thank you to everyone on lens team, you guys are amazing ❤️
- must listen to it @mylene.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x9760-0xc7-DA-5eedece4
https://orb.ac/post/0x9760-0xc7-DA-5eedece4
- The process of a collect:)
- Watching a video by @iremer.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x01b356-0x0584
- an amazing quest to follow
https://orb.ac/post/0x01a3dc-0x0376
- 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.
- thank you for this @iremer.lens
https://orb.ac/post/0x01b356-0x053a
https://orb.ac/post/0x01b356-0x053a
- Watching a video by @decentralgames.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x9346-0x04
- this is by far a prettiest photo on lens
https://orb.ac/post/0x89dc-0x102a-DA-2b9d7424
https://orb.ac/post/0x89dc-0x102a-DA-2b9d7424
- let’s come and discuss things
https://orb.ac/post/0x01b34a-0x83
- share anything with your friends now
https://orb.ac/post/0xbbb9-0x028f-DA-a4ad4bb2
- get yours like now @marenaltman.lens @astrace.lens
https://orb.ac/post/0x018c69-0xba-DA-d128cd55
- natal charts on lens are live!!!!
mint your horoscope now: https://astrace.app/
- Watching a video by @jadedarmawangsa.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x01a5c9-0x4a
- this is an awesome playlist
https://orb.ac/post/0x8e-0x0b6c-DA-8e75cdb3
- there’s no place like hometown, so mine is delhi fr
https://orb.ac/post/0xbbb9-0x028f-DA-94c801bb
- one piece always
https://orb.ac/post/0xbbb9-0x028f-DA-cb1b5f60
- Some thoughts how Lens ecosystem could evolve. First there should be a baseline out of the box features and algos available to all apps/use-cases to rely upon. This helps to mitigate cold start issue for all the new experiences and apps. Second, the apps could build their own algorithms and curate their audiences. The most exciting experience would be when you can login with Lens to all the appa but each app curates experiences and content based on their community and audience meaning that you get completely different experience on Orb, Buttrfly, Phaver etc even when everyone is using the same shared network. This direction would bring some diversity for the apps and builds awesome communities. Especially when Lens becoming fully accessible, the bebefits would be amplified 🌿
- Watching a video by @krp.lens_eth on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x01aae8-0x41
- tell us something interesting.
https://orb.ac/post/0xbbb9-0x028f-DA-b6db7a42
- Watching a video by @bankless.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x8b61-0x0105-DA-09e81cba
- Watching a video by @alysiatech.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x0170ba-0x011d
- quite widely said kimmo
https://orb.ac/post/0x3a77-0x0333-DA-a1ffa11a
- glad to see more creators on lens
watching a video by @ibraheem.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x8dc6-0x0b
https://orb.ac/post/0x8dc6-0x0b
- Today, we're excited to announce our $15 million funding round for Lens Protocol to accelerate the adoption of the next generation of the internet powered by human connection –- the people-powered social layer.
Read more about the announcement here:
https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/ZF4VA-MXxUCXt_E2GnlkC5fCoIteTBG2r6Fx6ra3q5w
In just over a year while still in closed beta, we've kickstarted an ecosystem where developers and users alike can thrive, building and creating new novel social experiences.
Together, we're shaping the social layer of the internet.
Build the future of social with us, join our talented team: https://jobs.eu.lever.co/aave
- this is such a cool thing to see @edkeziah.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎥
https://orb.ac/post/0x014e11-0x0251-DA-40e534ef
https://orb.ac/post/0x014e11-0x0251-DA-40e534ef
- the best artist on lens since day 1.
Check out this profile: https://orb.ac/@notgonnamakeit.lens
- this 🍜
https://orb.ac/post/0x0d-0x03d7-DA-4b0eed7a
- launching URL previews!
all the shared links in the posts now have previews!
get a quick look of any post, profile, list, community, or any other web link!
- introducing polls (experimental)!
now you can create and view polls on orb app!
- introducing display settings! 🌈
customize the app's theme & accent color and make orb app truly yours.
- memories and relationships
https://orb.ac/post/0x05-0x1e2f-DA-02ea1a61
- no comments just update orb
https://orb.ac/post/0xbbb9-0x0289-DA-5668d00c
- I really wanna do a collabs with @piano.lens-kamilla for orb videos.
https://orb.ac/post/0x01a7ab-0x0127
- @orbapp.lens is shipping so much that the list of new features does not even fit in my screen anymore 🤯
Great job @nilesh.lens @kipto.lens @rohukr.lens we love Orb 🚀
- leigh relevant search it’s easier to find more lens friends
https://orb.ac/post/0xbbb9-0x0287-DA-af27e775
- yes please send some lists
https://orb.ac/post/0x01852a-0x035b
- Celebrating @lensprotocol 's new Limited Edition Collection feature launch!!
44 Free Editions of this Video for Followers Only! 💛
Featured Song: "In Between" - SOZI
Stream Here: https://symphony.to/sozi/in-between
#musicartist #popmusic #alternative #InBetween #SOZI #limitededition
- Onboarding to Lens in 3 Simple Steps!
"I claimed my Lens profile, what do I do now?" Is a question I get a LOT. I recommend doing 3 things that we go over in this video:
- complete your profile
- make your first post
- get on mobile
Disclaimer: these are my personal views, not those of The Aave Companies. There is more than one way to complete these activities, DYOR!
What should I cover next? Comment your suggestions and questions below 👇
- Onboarding to Lens in 3 Simple Steps!
"I claimed my Lens profile, what do I do now?" Is a question I get a LOT. I recommend doing 3 things that we go over in this video:
- complete your profile
- make your first post
- get on mobile
Disclaimer: these are my personal views, not those of The Aave Companies. There is more than one way to complete these activities, DYOR!
What should I cover next? Comment your suggestions and questions below 👇
- Share your favorite song with us.
Listening to *On The Banks Of The East River* by @fredriko.lens on @orbapp.lens 🎧
https://orb.ac/post/0x019291-0x013d
https://orb.ac/post/0x019291-0x013d
- Loving the new “Creator’s Revenue Analytics” feature of @orbapp.lens 🔥🔥🔥
- Introducing Orb's Creator Revenue Analytics 💸
See an overview of any Lens account's:
◆ Revenue
◆ Top Supporters
◆ Highest-performing posts