The issue isn't as simple as bots / boosts are good or bad. The "nefarious" part that everyone seems to keep leaving out is the most important part. It's the reason why I after several calls with David, I emotionally and actively stopped using or acknowledging the platform. It's the reason I've been pushing back so hard and so loudly about the changes to zora, removing the chronological follower and discover feeds, and having them replaced by activity feeds... If you want to pay to create fake demand, using bots, more power to you... I'd personally just airdrop actual humans I think might enjoy the music/art but "perceived volume" and all that jazz. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM is why this ugly... Sound has a leaderboard, and they removed, the real time minting feed, by design they destroyed discoverability of all those new artists they shilled a brighter future to on tiktok and ig, and they never stood a chance, but a guy with a turtle neck controls those charts.... The same issue is now on zora, where unrealistic amount of mints keep going to the platforms posts, big projects, and friends of the inner circle... all of these things are fine in a free market, but when you manipulate discovery, and design to amplify the most active, and bury everyone else...... you can't gaslight me to make me believe the ones designing and calling the shots aren't intelligent enough to understand how broken and rigged that is.... I know without a doubt, it was by design at sound, i spoke for hours with David. It's becoming increasing more difficult to not look at Zora in the same light. They are devs, they could easily create an organic default feed that only shows original posts in the order they were minted from the people you follow and create a second feed, that has the activity mechanics.... the only reason not to do this, is as exactly how it looks, and i've screenshot and documented so many examples that's it's happening... So when I see promo about how Zora is fun, mints are better than likes, it feels like the same playback, trying to onboard a bunch of new users, who will be buried by the latest AI generated meme......
It's not bots, it's the whole picture. It's not speculation, it's not salt, it's actively happen to point it's impossible not to see.
Am I the bad guy for bringing up a design flaw that so many others see and label it as "the rich get richer" scheme... This behavior on sound was detrimental the ecosystem.. So it's not the bots, it's a insider strategy that is easily abused, that doesn't just benefit the the ones getting high volume, but makes the experience for everyone else feel and look bad....
Everyone is so passive in this space, these aren't defi trading ponzi's, these are platforms centered around art, that actively market themselves as superior to the web2 experience... your integrity gotta be on empty if you try and shun the messenger for trying to stick up for the greater good of health of all users....
I don't even wanna work on music or document art after all this, so I pivoted and began documenting in detail this whole experience to create and actual documentary.
No one wants to acknowledge users justified critiques, but steady reposting untrue glazing statements...
tisk tisk... Naurdwuar on the case...... INCOMING
111111 $enjoy
The issue isn't as simple as bots / boosts are good or bad. The "nefarious" part that everyone seems to keep leaving out is the most important part. It's the reason why I after several calls with David, I emotionally and actively stopped using or acknowledging the platform. It's the reason I've been pushing back so hard and so loudly about the changes to zora, removing the chronological follower and discover feeds, and having them replaced by activity feeds... If you want to pay to create fake demand, using bots, more power to you... I'd personally just airdrop actual humans I think might enjoy the music/art but "perceived volume" and all that jazz. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM is why this ugly... Sound has a leaderboard, and they removed, the real time minting feed, by design they destroyed discoverability of all those new artists they shilled a brighter future to on tiktok and ig, and they never stood a chance, but a guy with a turtle neck controls those charts.... The same issue is now on zora, where unrealistic amount of mints keep going to the platforms posts, big projects, and friends of the inner circle... all of these things are fine in a free market, but when you manipulate discovery, and design to amplify the most active, and bury everyone else...... you can't gaslight me to make me believe the ones designing and calling the shots aren't intelligent enough to understand how broken and rigged that is.... I know without a doubt, it was by design at sound, i spoke for hours with David. It's becoming increasing more difficult to not look at Zora in the same light. They are devs, they could easily create an organic default feed that only shows original posts in the order they were minted from the people you follow and create a second feed, that has the activity mechanics.... the only reason not to do this, is as exactly how it looks, and i've screenshot and documented so many examples that's it's happening... So when I see promo about how Zora is fun, mints are better than likes, it feels like the same playback, trying to onboard a bunch of new users, who will be buried by the latest AI generated meme...... It's not bots, it's the whole picture. It's not speculation, it's not salt, it's actively happen to point it's impossible not to see. Am I the bad guy for bringing up a design flaw that so many others see and label it as "the rich get richer" scheme... This behavior on sound was detrimental the ecosystem.. So it's not the bots, it's a insider strategy that is easily abused, that doesn't just benefit the the ones getting high volume, but makes the experience for everyone else feel and look bad.... Everyone is so passive in this space, these aren't defi trading ponzi's, these are platforms centered around art, that actively market themselves as superior to the web2 experience... your integrity gotta be on empty if you try and shun the messenger for trying to stick up for the greater good of health of all users.... I don't even wanna work on music or document art after all this, so I pivoted and began documenting in detail this whole experience to create and actual documentary. No one wants to acknowledge users justified critiques, but steady reposting untrue glazing statements... tisk tisk... Naurdwuar on the case...... INCOMING 111111 $enjoy