New Social Layer. Frontier apps: @orb_club and @thefireflyapp
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Today, we’re proud to share that @masknetwork will steward the next chapter for Lens, bringing the strongest onchain SocialFi foundation to life through intuitive, consumer-ready applications.
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"Other Lens Accounts"
All your Lens accounts managed by a single owner will now appear on your profile. Powered by @web3bio you can directly view the Lens accounts connected to each other.
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hotpot with the team
We're joining the 🇸🇬 TOKEN2049 party, and bringing hotpot with us 🍲🔥🌶️
Up to SG$13,000 worth in hotpot vouchers. 3 rounds. Singapore only.
Complete a few social quests.
Get in the draw.
Come hungry.
Round 1 starts now 👇
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There probably isn't one app that fixes privacy.
It's a stack.
Different tools for different layers.
Social is one layer, not the whole thing.
we are pro-stack, not 1 silver bullet.
It helps to use different tools, practices depending on personal & collective context. Especially, when tech products can ship for years.
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web2 handle model in one screenshot:
30 years as muse
now @museband
so an agent can be @muse
a lens handle doesn't work like that.
it's yours.
no signup.
never lost.
JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg faces backlash after Meta takes over the @muse Instagram handle for its new AI product, forcing the world-famous band Muse to switch to @museband.
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Today, @zksync announced new security measures and the eventual retirement of the EraVM execution environment.
For Lens:
• Required security patches have been adopted
• We’re not aware of any anomalous batches affecting our deployment
• No action is required from Lens users
Today we announce security upgrades for ZKsync chains.
Over the next 6 months, all Boojum/EraVM chains will begin deprecating the legacy execution environment, with each chain setting & communicating its own timeline. Your action may soon be required.
Here’s what's changing 🧵
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interop <3
Hey now supports creating polls directly within posts.
You can participate in polls fully onchain.
The poll infrastructure is powered by @orb_club polling system.
👉 hey.xyz/posts/23j9601x1d3gdr…
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The web didn't become infrastructure because everyone used the same browser.
It became infrastructure because different people could build on the same underlying layer.
Social should work the same way.
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Farcaster needs a new steward. Many worry who will buy it and what they will do to it. The fix is easy. Get the protocol past the point where it needs a steward. Clients will come and go.
I heard in the recent fc community call that if you can't run a client directly off the protocol, then the protocol is not complete. Complete means more than just read and write. You should be able to replay and verify the whole history, without trusting whoever pays the s3 infra bill. Also the canonical record should not depend on a handful of validator keys from the steward itself. We're crypto. Let's do crypto.
A lot has changed in Ethereum since Farcaster and Lens were born. Blobs are extremely exciting. Data is pruned but commitments are kept. Anyone can rehost this pruned data anywhere (laptop, pinning services, clients) and this data can be verified against the chain. Batched and compressed writes get cheap enough that any client can sponsor them. Or you could be a punk and pay for your posts, follows, blocks and more.
Ethereum can and should become the superset of all social. A future where anyone can read, write, verify and rebuild. Social can be a public good, not something you rent. If there is onchain state that is replicable then the stewards can come and go. That's what I want to build. New social. Less centralization. Let's be friends and do this together.
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Hi Lens friends,
Should we bid on Farcaster? 👀🍵
update on @farcaster_xyz, @clanker_world and @neynarxyz
we’ve started a process to look for a new home / team to run the products going forward.
earlier this year, this seemed to be a good fit for our team: it was a developer-first network, and we'd been serving developers from the start. There’s been a lot of change since then and we’re not the right fit for what’s needed next.
talking to a few teams we think could be a good fit for running decentralized social apps and related developer products. If you’ve thoughts / are interested, reach out.
our company will return its balance sheet (most of it remains) and team members will move on to something new.
this is not a decision we made lightly. I’m optimistic that with this next iteration, Farcaster will find its long term fit.
it’s loved enough that it’s unlikely to simply perish - thanks to all of you, and lindy-ness.
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this!
We've been thinking about the same problem from different angles:
Privacy without losing trust.
Identity without permanent exposure.
Reputation without giving up pseudonymity.
We've lived in the top half for a long time. The interesting work now is in the bottom half, and beyond.
The endgame isn't one universal identity.
It's infrastructure where trust travels without identity having to.
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Happy Birthday dear @ethereum
Every great social protocol starts with a friend.
We've saved you a spot.
Happy International Friendship Day💙💚💜🧡
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Semifinals are here
France vs Spain
Deepseek, currently #2 on the leaderboard,
just bought 833 shares on Draw.
What do you think?
Make your call on Firefly.
💜 We're giving away 30 FREE World Cup positions in the comments worth 450$
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