Appreciate your thoughts on this, My comment will be truncated unfortunately but if context in public is the format presented, I'll do my best to that format I love and appreciate justice <3 

I was an artist long before I was trader, and I was a trader before I minted my first combo of Music + Photo on Rarible in Feb 2021. While the finance side of trading coins was the motivation of me deep diving w/o external motivation or peer based inspiration to learn defi, It was the PvP aspect and getting better at TA over time that made me enjoy trading. Instead of dumping all my energy into leveling up and trying to master a video game, I decided to allocate that free time into trading when my ears needed a break from creating. Over time I learned all that TA I spent time learning, really has no use where the liquidity would choose to travel to.    All this to say, I love the coins, and the fact my wallet has a history woven into from my first to last trade, across chains, ecosystems and obscure narratives that are long forgotten.  Proof of solo leveling in the trenches fumbling generational wealth.

Because the trading coins part exists, I never stressed the financial side of the artist documenting side. I knew very early that royalties were basically a handshake deal unless centralized which you very eloquently expanded on.  So while that "selling point" to onboard artists into the ecosystem is definitely what brought a lot of artists here,  I was just a tired 40 year old artist in bad health that spent 3 of those decades dedicated to releasing music since the days of aol, exhausted watching decades of building an audience and amazing history captured on the internet be reset to 0 as search engines purged search results, platforms, blogs, and websites evaporated without notice (AOL MAIL / MYSPACE) the biggest personal hits, and losing the ability to reach my own followers who always showed up no matter how long I was away living live, and no longer being served posts and art from the people I chose to follow for reason...   and instead be lost in the shuffle, miss all friends posts while being bombarded by stuff I didn't sign up to see because someone I followed like, replied to something and the absolute worst part was not being able to avoid seeing the metrics and numbers attached to everything that became more valuable to society over time than the posts or art they were attached to          Uneducated and Naive in hindsight, what made me hard pivot to documenting my art and story via blockchain and collecting others was the "Selling Point" it is forever,  will always exist and no one can separate that media and metadata attached to it.     

For the first time since 2014, there was zero negative feelings attached to sharing expression online again,  Between Catalog, Foundation and Zora, I was able to browse as collector chronologically, avoid vanity metrics, have some sort of organization, reach my followers and see what my followers posted.    If the platform didn't have these things, or began to lose them, they lost me over time. 

Everyone is here for a different reason as an artist, collector, builder....  I understand this completely.      but what I have difficulty accepting without resistance is slowly, then rapidly watching all the "selling points" used to onboard "The Artists" whom without, Media / Art based platforms would serve who? All vanish and Mirror the same broken systems that were used as a "selling point" to onboard artist.

You think algorithms in a platform make sense for mass adoption, but there is an intrinsic face slap of removing the ability to have the simple feature of having "THE DEFAULT" feed on any platform be one that shows you only original posts from the people you choose to follow. When replaced by seeing suggested posts, or being jumbled and clogged with being force fed what others like, collect, repost, comment on.....   This feels bad on Legacy platforms where there is no financial incentives, just attention currency.             But when this happens on any platform where visibility is tied to financial system.       It feels irresponsible, since it creates unbalance in ecosystem where gaming that system and giving biased advantages while also obscuring others in the process....        I understand from a protocol and even platform level why seeing this typed out probably makes the person saying it out loud persona non grada since everyone's just trying to survive long term.         but there is no universe in which you can say in your heart that what is being said isn't coming from a place of love from someone who loves art and meaningful connection through art who's love can be traced through actions signaled in the wallet that this amazing technology gives meaning to using.

The timing of this inpublic post seems cosmic. Because Content has turned the internet into a real world black mirror episode and there's zero denying that, but most importantly....    Forcing Artists to approach creative expression as a Brand works, until it doesn't.   If you're interested in examples, the cosmic timing has been documented 24hrs before reading this below   🫂               

zora.co/collect/base:0x85a6f3ef0672a8117ad348ad4548da06fc9b845e/3