Some time back, I read a LinkedIn poll targeting a community mix of Web 3, Crypto and Blockchain focused individuals a question. It asked them simply which platform do they get the most traction on.
It listed various options … LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook.
I didn’t click anything. Underneath the poll… I wrote something like
- Discord
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New Kids (Entre, Avvi, Mastadon etc – category king not clear yet)
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LinikedIn / Reddit
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Who cares?
I described Facebook as something like dead and buried, and put a caveat on Twitter that it is on its way to the morgue but I’d pause on final signing off, until I can see what new things Elon will bring to the table.
Well. Some may feel it is too early to write off Musk’s influence yet, but much has not gone well.
Mastodon is actually in a fix right now, because not all of the impact of an exodus to it from Twitter has been useful. It seems it wasn’t ready for the upsurge and the massive demand has found it wanting in some various ways.
https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-legal-issues-tipping-point/
Albert Baldwin already posted this story… I replied:
I was in a bar restaurant a few weeks back with an old friend. Next to me was a large party of folk aged roughly between 16 and 35. They were quite noisy, so it was easy to overhear their conversation without making much effort.
As my companion begged excuse to use the restroom, I overheard part of the conversation between what seemed to be the most mature and the youngest two people in the group who were, perchance, seated adjacently.
The young woman was reeling off a list of Social Media and online platforms she regularly uses. As she paused, the guy asked ‘And what about Twitter?’
She replied with a dismissive smirk – ‘Oh that’s what my Grandad uses!’
The article mentions two camps – those leaving Twitter for Mastodon because of Musk impact, and those actually tired of the architecture and engagement experience and wanting something new.
The notion of age as a contributing factor, if demonstrated, has now probably developed multiple strata.
Early Social Media adopters were typically aged 25-50. Smartphones were not yet ‘a thing’ by the late 1990’s while PCs and internet connections needed stronger technical skills to keep operating. Now we have some children as young as eight years old, with their own phones in their own little world.
Albert is on a roll today, because he drew another article to my attention (entered my feed) about how the United States Copyright Office has reversed a previous decision it made allowing copyright to AI generated digital art.
What’s the context?
https://www.cbr.com/ai-comic-deemed-ineligible-copyright-protection/?
Well, AI generated collectibles are going to become obsolete. We’ve had the Cryptopunks; We’ve had the Apes, and we’ve had Midjourney, where individuals can have a go at making their own self fashioned collection themselves.
TSMC is on track by the end of next year, to have processor format shrunk down to a 2nm die size, and what that means is smartphones with processing power fast approaching quantum computing.
Capability will be moving up a notch so rather than AI churning out the collectible product at scale, they can churn out memes of the Midjourney ecosystem at scale.
And if they can do it with these ecosystems, they can do it with other types of platforms, including Social Media ilk.
And the key – no copyright protection structures.
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Ultimately the only point of unarguable truth is ownership of IP through the ‘First to Mint’ principle – Blockchain Agnostic.
Though users of all demographics are the ultimate decision makers. They are ultimately going to ‘vote’ on who the next SM category king is, and the ecosystem it is in… with their feet… or perhaps their fingers.
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