Communities:
Join?
Create?
Ownership without losing connection.
VC funded premines are not web3s future. Web2 investors are in for a rude awakening with their "Costco internets" aka, semi-centralized projects made for the sole purpose of enriching seed round investors.
Community-run projects are what will survive. And what survives eventually thrives. Community-run projects are created naturally, to fill a need the community needs. Most of the VC funding goes to either buidling the product or marketing it. With a giant community, you have plenty of talented devs and tons of word of mouth. VC products are trying to jam a square in a round peg more times than not, trying to squeeze a dollar out of the free market.
So its only natural that projects built on grass root fundamentals will succeed long term. Communities simply never had the tools to organize in ways we do today. We are our own gatekeepers now.
Time flys, it's 2022. You just so happen to be a random web2 content creator that hears about Hive. You go to a front end that gives you two options, Join or create a community. If you click create it takes you down a path to easily creating your own token and setting up your ad system. With just a few clicks you have your own .com domain attached to your immutable open-source site and community.
As you start to bring your audience across, your built-in ad slots start to become desired. People start advertising, all happening automatically while you sleep. You wake up and you see the market cap of your token grow. Delightful. Seeing the positive feedback loop, you start making it a priority to convert all of your audience from web2 sites to your web3 site. Since your site cant be taken down, you can really invest deep into your account, growing without fear of being banned.
You start to create NFTs to give out to top hodlers of your token every month. There's always a fight at the end of the month between your most loyal supporters to get into the top spot for that NFT. Your token now has a nice sized market cap with a built in market maker and some decent liquidity.
You're no longer just a content creator, you're now a business, creating ref links and giving out tiny portions of your token to new signups to your community. You have a few full-time mods keeping the site on track and making sure ads are up to standard. Your Twitter account was just suspended, you laugh, thinking how powerful web2 once was, now a shell of its former self.