What an embarrassment Farcaster became. There’s so many incredible people who believed in it and so many amazing conversations that have taken place there, but we should have all known from the start, with right wing Yarvinist Monarchists like Dan Romero at the helm, it was always going to reflect that worldview. I thought maybe Neynar could save it by opening it up, but that clearly wasn’t going to happen when they refused to allow permissionless node access and a fork was required. I will acknowledge that fork, Quilibrium/Hypersnap as the true Farcaster going forward, but for now, the sale of network to authoritarian technofascists, leaves a bad taste in my mouth, so I am taking an indefinite hiatus from all things Farcaster, and of course, a permanent end to the Network School’s Snapchain version.

Collecting badges

Every redesign makes this all more vibe-chasey and less usable. I appreciate experimention but this ain’t it. I fully hate even having this on my phone

Partially because I’m hard up financially and could use some help from the community, partially because I just wanted to put something out into the world that is completely human, flawed, and me; I decided to create a new mint.Capped supply, $5 a piece, on Ethereum

God damn. They nailed it.

Fork of Obtainium that adds a bunch of quality of life improvements and Material 3 Expressive UI.

I used to hate April Fool’s Day. In retrospect I see it as a sort of media literacy test for the pre-AI era. If one couldn’t muster a bit of skepticism about an absurd-seeming claim on a day that we’ve been explicitly told is for farce and trickery, how in the hell are we supposed to survive real-time AI deepfakes?

I like that Orb wants to do something fresh but the design is so Gen Alpha maximalist revisionist-nostalgic 2004 Japanese vending machine sticker pack. And the fact that dark mode uses bright white cards for the posts is the cherry on the top of my “nah fuck that” cake

Zora turned to shit when they pivoted to coins. Now they’ve gone all in on the endless slop future: pivoting to Solana.

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, has been excluded from the global financial system for no other reason than that she shone light on Israel’s genocide. Where are the crypto people speaking up about this?