DavNej 🌱

Let's speak about the unspeakable world

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

In 2026, I plan to be fully back to decentralized social.

If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest, not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer, with anyone being able to build their own client on top.

In fact, since the start of the year I've been back to decentralized social already. Every post I've made this year, or read this year, I made or read with https://t.co/BJ3J4TvNNu, a multi-client that covers reading and posting to X, Lens, Farcaster and Bluesky (though bluesky has a 300 char limit, so they don't get to see my beautiful long rants).

But crypto social projects has often gone the wrong way. Too often, we in crypto think that if you insert a speculative coin into something, that counts as "innovating", and moves the world forward. Mixing money and social is not inherently wrong: Substack shows that it's possible to create an economy that supports very high-quality content. But Substack is about _subscribing to creators_, not _creating price bubbles around them_. Over the past decade, we have seen many many attempts at incentivizing creators by creating price bubbles around them, and all fail by (i) rewarding not content quality, but pre-existing social capital, and (ii) the tokens all going to zero after one or two years anyway.

Too many people make galaxy-brained arguments that creating new markets and new assets is automatically good because it "elicits information", when the rest of their product development actions clearly betray that they're not actually interested in maximizing people's ability to benefit from that information. That is not Hayekian info-utopia, that is corposlop.

Hence, decentralized social should be run by people who deeply believe in the "social" part, and are motivated first and foremost by solving the problems of social.

The Aave team has done a great job stewarding Lens up to this point. I'm excited about what will happen to Lens over the next year, because I think the new team coming in are people who actually are interested in the "social": even back when the decentralized social space barely existed, they were trying to figure out how to do encrypted tweets.

I plan to post more there this year.

I encourage everyone to spend more time in Lens, Farcaster and the broader decentralized social world this year. We need to move beyond everyone constantly tweeting inside a single global info warzone, and into a reopened frontier, where new and better forms of interaction become possible.

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[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

AI done wrong is making new forms of independent self-replicating intelligent life

AI done right is mecha suits for the human mind

If we do the former without the latter, we risk permanent human disempowerment. If we do the latter, flourishing superinteligent human civilization

[DavNej 🌱 @davnej_]

@TheFocusBubble No post. Imagine social media with only posts made with the intention to be good.

[DavNej 🌱 @davnej_]

@fireship_dev Terrifying. We must open source our knowledge to the maximum.

[Nouns Fair @NounsFair]

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A custom grant stack to more easily customize and adapt a grant stack for a communities specific needs and desires, integrating $nouns token for QF

@0xMekail @davnej_ @0xclyne

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[jade 🐉 dgn2rgn.eth @tirisanna]

what better organization to win my first hackathon prize than with @nounsdao 😭 I’m incredibly grateful ☺️

ty for believing in us & funding public goods that push the boundaries of web3 innovation. I can’t wait to keep developing & contributing to this amazing community ❤️

[DavNej 🌱 @davnej_]

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[DavNej 🌱 @davnej_]

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[GG Community @GGCommunityTech]

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[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

“The prosecution of Assange in the United States would create legal pathways under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that would allow for the prosecution of journalists who are simply doing their jobs”

[Samuel Armes @samuelarmes]

What do you guys think of this sign? 👇

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Trump vs Biden debate should be on a podcast, not CNN or any legacy media organization.

And the goal should be truth & wisdom, not drama.

[Lefteris Karapetsas @LefterisJP]

Privacy is a human right and it is for everyone.

[Patrick Collins @PatrickAlphaC]

Privacy is normal

[Crypto Tea @Cryptotea]

If you buy a haircut for $100, the barber gets $70 after income tax

then the barber buys a painting for $70, the artist gets $50 after income tax

then the artist buys personal training for $50, the trainer gets $35 after income tax

and so on until $0 left and the government owns all of the $100

[Patrick Collins @PatrickAlphaC]

This isn’t funny.

This is actually unacceptable.

[DavNej 🌱 @davnej_]

@PatrickAlphaC This gives a good overview of what fiat money is worth. THEY don't even know how it works. I know many people who know very well how several crypto work

[DavNej 🌱 @davnej_]

Hey #world do you realize a lot of people on @twitter / @x post even if they have nothing interesting to say. They just play the algorithm's game. This is how we make social media garbage

[DavNej 🌱 @davnej_]

Hey @CongressionalUS, #SaveChandra