Hey there!
We're back with our 6th edition of our weekly digest, highlighting a few hand-selected great pieces of writing over the past month or so.
Check them out below & let us know which was your favorite!
Time-Shifting Geometries
Agoston Nagy explores the concepts and methods behind his algorithmic plotter graphics series “Procedural Drawings”.
The Pulse of Online Communities: Navigating the Lifecycle
Kalen dives into the lifecycle of online communities — Inception, Establishment, Maturity, and Mitosis or Revival — and highlights the importance of communication and value to prevent community stagnation and fragmentation.
The Infinite Client
zoz writes about how decentralized social graphs are evolving into dynamic ecosystems, but the primary challenge is achieving a self-sustaining growth cycle. Success in this domain will come from focusing on high-quality, engaging content rather than superficial feature tweaks, ensuring the amplification of ideas that attract and retain thoughtful users.
Passport Control for Onchain and Social Identities
iSpeakNerd discusses strategies for securing onchain and social identities in the web3 landscape using Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and Farcaster, emphasizing the importance of managing multiple wallets for different activities to safeguard one’s reputation and digital assets.
Next-Gen Social Apps
Axel explores the history of social media and lessons learned along the way, as well as the potential and challenges faced by newer decentralized platforms.
What I do believe is that for the foreseeable future, we won't see any new platform paradigms emerge because we are stuck with mobile phones as a computational platform. Instead, innovation will come from social-native apps, which use these platforms as a means of distribution.
A Lesson On Liquidity Pools
Maretus explains how to provide liquidity on a decentralized exchange like Uniswap, detailing the basics of liquidity pools, how trades work on a DEX, and the risks involved.
That's all we have this week — what did you think of these recommendations? What great writing did we miss?
Let us know what you think!
See you next week,
Paragraph team
