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I definitely agree with your critique of "removing the chronological follower and discover feeds, and having them replaced by activity feeds". The Zora feed could look so many different ways and I don't really understand why it looks the way it does. I liked when parts of it were actively curated by hand a lot.
I never actually used sound so I don't know how this played out over there.
I'd love it if you curated a page of stuff you liked. I'm also bummed to hear that you're not making music but also get that sometimes you have to take a step back.
I don't think you're the bad guy at all, and honestly appreciate you pushing back on the stuff other people (myself included) are taking for granted. I obviously don't share your level of outrage, in part because these are people i worked with for a couple years and I have a ton of sympathy for the pressure they are under to make something great.
That being said I hope the feed becomes more dynamic, curated and less easily manipulated.
im not even gonna touch the substance of what you're saying in the written piece here because i have so many thoughts about that moment and they're gonna come out in a really long thing I'll post later. but i wanted to share how the song makes me feel. also, this piece is so personal, and i don't think i was going to find that tone on my own but i wanted to get there. thanks for giving me a map.
It's a strong point that is also counter intuitive (at least to me, when i was first introduced to it). I kinda intentionally didn't get into pricing here because I think it's secondary to content but ultimately it's a pretty personal thing. from the artist side, being asked to lower your price or feeling market pressure to conform to a low price point can have deeper meaning than just the metrics. Price point can be symbolic of worth even if the data bears out that a lower price point will have higher overall revenue. The meaning of that revenue, in the form of one person's belief, has a different meaning than 10 people valuing the work differently.
I'll use John Henry as an example here - you buying this for 65 $fwb profoundly changed my life in a way that is difficult to measure. And that impact is uniquely linked to the fact that your bid felt like an important signal of belief to keep going. It was a powerful enough signal that it prompted me to quit UMG and eventually start working at FWB. Would minting a bunch of editions to different people have had the same impact? i doubt i would have gotten enough $fwb to join the discord this way and that would have had a major impact on my trajectory.
All this is to say that there are forces that are only visible from the artist side that transcend the data. You're objectively correct with the point you're making - the dune dashboard is pretty undeniable - but there are also metrics we don't measure on Dune that really matter.
It means the world to me to start having this conversation in long form onchain instead of on twitter. let's keep it going.
[tangling in headlights by
urboiari](opensea.io/collection/deer-tangling-like-ivy)
[barely A lady ✧ raw jam by forrest
mortifee](
be)
[my best music
nft](opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xabefbc9fd2f806065b4f3c237d4b59d9a9
7bcac7/1653)
[one good nft
since](foundation.app/mint/eth/0x3B3ee1931Dc30C1957379FAc9aba94D1
C48a5405/37994)
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