TLDR: A discussion on the future of internet communities Internet communities over the past two decades have been competely dominated by megaclusters like facebook, instagram, and twitter. These megaclusters have been helpful in connecting the world, but their very nature sacrifices depth and nuance. Communities organized within these clusters were necessarily two dimensional. They had to work within the confines of an extremely generic system. It is time we migrate to a new model that favors smaller independent nodes, each with a custom array of tooling and customs. With the proper leeway to cater to their specific cultures and practices, these community nodes can finally become three dimensional. 3D communities are defined by their ability to provide a holistic experience to their members. They’ve moved beyond being simple chat rooms. They are becoming like cities: built to serve multiple needs of their members. Make a friend, learn something new, get a job, find a collaborator, be entertained, invest your money. What will be possible in this new future? What’s causing it? How can we anticipate the new opportunities and challenges that will arise from it? Tim, Reka, and LDF sit down to discuss this topic from their perspective as builders of communities and community tools. https://twitter.com/itstimconnors Tim Connors Cofounder 101 Tim is the cofounder and CEO at 101.xyz - a web3-powered learning platform for communities. He started the project with his cofounder, Alex, in early 2022, and has now helped build it into the most prominent ed-tech company in web3, with over half a million users. Tim's career has been defined by serial entrepreneurship. His past projects include an ecommerce company, a non-profit events company, and a conversational AI recruiting software. https://twitter.com/reka_eth Reka eth chaotic good between organizations and co-creation. building @guildxyz jokeDAO maxi https://twitter.com/ldf_gm LDF GM Head of Partnerships Disco.xyz ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hee-fPQkqQk

There are games that try to put their state (and the logic that executes changes to that state) on chain. The most famous example is Dark Forest (2021), which remains quite esoteric, since the UX was meant for only the bravest of users. The hope is that in making games fully permissionless, trustless, open-source and composable, we will see the emergence of new design patterns. In the same way that Uniswap was able to put swaps fully on chain and integrate with other protocols in novel ways (such as with Flash Loans), fully on-chain gaming threatens to produce a sea-change. In this talk, I trace the progress that developers have made in bringing games from web2.5 to the web3. Not only have their been scaling and tooling problems, but there have also been design problems. In the same way that AMM had to reimagine swapping away from order books, on-chain games are similarly exploring niche genres of gaming that are appropriate for the asynchronicity of the blockchain. William Robinson NFTs + Metaverse, + Gaming Stage ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPheTkiQXI

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