I have seen something bizarre in the culture of the Internet.
Most people are unaware of the moment they enter into something.
In the beginning it's simply repeating the same page. Recognising names in responses. Familiarizing oneself with the same discussions on a daily basis. After months it dawns on you that one part of your day just evolved around it.
The one thing that remains striking is that so many crypto projects attempt to make movements but the ones that make movements are the ones that end up making crypto rituals.
The odd thing is that when you're in the rituals, they seem insignificant.
Someone comes back every morning.
Some dialogues don't die completely.
Small groups build their own references, expectations and habits.
I feel like I'm always seeing more sense in OpenLedger with this perspective.
Not as a place to go.
More of a setting where people gradually shift their relationships with one another.
It is small, at first, but attention repeated often enough becomes behavior. When behavior occurs to the extent that it happens repeatedly, it becomes culture.
Perhaps this is where it alters.
Numbers are typically what markets pay attention to first.
At that stage, individuals may have developed an ecosystem unwittingly.
