Sowing Discord

On believers, detractors, and apes

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One thing that’s fascinating to watch with Web3 is the polarization it causes. Most of us on Twitter exist in echo chambers — for the tech world, that means overwhelming excitement and conversation about an entirely new frontier where a new language is being invented along the way. We wax poetic about rug-pulls and mint(-ing), change our Web2 profile pictures to pictures of honey badgers and snap up .ETH domain names and proudly proclaim we don’t give a sh*t while opening up our wallets.

Meanwhile, every now and then, someone who has been heads down in a crypto-fueled world will purposely re-adjust their Twitter timeline, conscious and wary and curious about echo chambers, eager to explore what’s happening back on earth and give a leg up to those trailing behind him, and is almost immediately met with a threat to steal his apes.

That is: I find it somewhat a propos that web3 calls Discord home.

If you need to find me this weekend, I’ll be somewhere in a gateway to the metaverse, exploring a seven-step program to transition to Web3, likely to a backdrop of tunes assembled by the Bored Apes.

If you’re a podcaster, and interested in exploring what all the above means for you, we can talk about that Monday at 1 PM Eastern.

See you there…

Alicia