please people from the lensverse, build a better "twitter space"

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what if blockchains and ethereum started in the web 2 erahow much the way the technology tree evolved ended up shaping the internet we have today? this is one of many peculiar concerns that I got from jaron lanier.the ad revenue model molded the attention economy we have today, which in turn governs and influences a huge chunk of our digital lives.remember the first time you seeded a torrent? of course you started to be more grateful whenever you were leeching a torrent, because you realized someone like you were hosting that. for no personal benefit, only the benefit of the network.now imagine if you got paid for seeding a torrent, how would that have changed your internet experience?you had to pay for your SMSs when twitter was launched, they had no business model for a couple of years, everything was great - I didn't mind the whale every now and then. but of course it couldn't last forever.those early tweets feel historic, like they were... inscriptions. what if twitter had an alternative business model on its peripheral vision, instead of the (seemingly) inevitable ad revenue + data mining model? what if one click tipping was prevalent, if ownership of historic tweets could be auctioned, with revenue shared with the first "likes". would that have changed something?could that have led jack to take different decisions, instead of trying to make twitter fit into what was expected of it? imagine if twitter started to get big AFTER something equivalent to the uniswap airdrop. you had likes and followers as a metric, traffic was much more organic back then, runaway close to end, boom, just drop a token, exit to the community, and let it continue its path.would we have voted for the ability to edt tweets in the twitter dao, and get it done 10 years ago?maybe migrating to decentralized storage, using more open standards would not have gone against the stakeholders interests. other siloed networks could get inspired by it, try to copy, vampire attack it, iterate it, and twitter could even benefit from that. twitter holders would be the passionate ones, would have tried to get the network to grow.maybe we didn't have a big enough culture that would value that.every few months I used to get messages and mails forwarded by members of my family and acquaintances saying that facebook would start to be a paid service the following month. that sounded like a social apocalypse at the time. I knew it was fake, but in the back of my mind I always thought: how would I continue to use it, I didn't even had a credit card back then. it probably wouldn't be available in my country at launch, you know how different jurisdictions operate... and anyway how could I justify it? everything else is free with ads. of course, how could any service charge anything at all and not alienate most users in most countries that couldn't pay even if they wanted because the companies would never open an office in their country?well, maybe if I seeded just enough torrents, and could pay with an internet currency...maybe it wouldn't be so bad to pay for facebook and motivate them to have other revenue models. maybe compete with the twitter DAO on the side, instead of acquiring everything.in the early days of instagram (iOS only) getting a like from a couple of your friends that were early adopters? you had to really nail the composition and editing. you didn't compete with brands that tried to mimic the authenticity of posters. artists were reluctant because of the low resolution, they used tumblr and flickr, curators used tumblr but didn't credit artists enough, there was no benefit, it was hard to keep track of provenance. at some point instagram fixed the resolution, but then it was already a different place. then they started businesses there. what if that internet money allowed you to show your taste to your friends instead of screenshot retweeting with a third-party app?getting albums from the internet would have been the same thing?I've downloaded the pay-what-you-want radiohead album in the first 5 minutes after it launched. for free because I didn't have a credit card. I was probably one of the first ones. imagine how I would value that as a collectible. I would brag to my friends that love radiohead more than me. or I would gift it to then.did the superstar editors of wikipedia with articles read by millions of people get any donation money (from people with credit cards, or in countries that did not charge a 50 usd for a 10 usd international transfer), or was that to difficult and bureaucratic to manage? I don't know how it works now to be honest.the many specialized forums you joined in your life, most of them are gone forever. pc gaming forums, car forums, movie forums. facebook looked and worked better and people were already there, they couldn't compete. imagine if they had a shared back end on a decentralized network (almost undeleateable), and anyone could build a front end, that displayed various of these servers at the same time, with continuously improved front-ends. didn't happen. your reputation there? gone too.second life was ahead of its time. maybe we would be indeed be living and earning in the metaverse by now in this alternative universe. games would be different? stores would have developed earlier?of course, maybe it couldn't have happened much differently than it did. maybe any other business model would have failed catastrophically. I'm not even thinking about zero-knowledge proofs. this is just starting to get into our imaginary. DAOs that work smoothly too. escrows into facebook marketplace. smart accounts for when you forgot your passwords or got hacked (it was not the end of the world back then). to imagine more vividly what the world could have been like 20 years after crypto got popular, there's still a lot we need to experience.but how what is happening today is affecting the future internet? I believe many more builders are thinking about this now compared to years ago.I'm curious about what people at @LensProtocol , @farcaster_xyz, @urbit, @ourZORA are thinking.I've noticed there are many nostalgic like me, that are trying to cultivate the internet of old, the html, thinking about calm computing. I've bumped into this great site the other day, that opens a million tabs in your head about the internet https://diagram.website.but it's not only nostalgia, or thinking about "what went wrong", it's just a realization that things can and will be different, and that's now easier than ever to maybe correct course or at least use all the tools available now in our favor.

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