I agree with this statement regarding the Community:
- The community is almost dead (Shitzu, Black Dragon, are still alive).
- The ecosystem is dead.
- Money is handed out to projects with zero reporting, and these same people get chosen as delegates for the House of Stake. I even started a blog because, as usual, NF filters the news — splitting it into what they can share (“good progress”) and what must be hidden — centralizing everything.
- Newcomers to NF, like @lane, quickly figure out how it works here: instead of doing real work, they write praise posts about how they touched an NF *“co-founders backpacks”, create endless roadmaps, throw parties in Cannes, and hire people for absurd salaries with no accountability — just to spend more time traveling and writing questionable articles.
- Lane, who spent years working closely with Buterin, comes into our ecosystem and is now trying to bring back centralization inside the Community. This is genuinely insane — it’s a rollback to web0. Try telling anyone about it — they won’t believe you. This attitude only happens when you genuinely hate the ecosystem and couldn’t care less about web3 values.
Re: Governance
@gauntlet, which still hasn’t managed to launch governance properly for over a year, together with the NF — which has never been known for speed, unlike the community (it’s hard to even guess how much money has already been wasted on this) — brought in delegates from the Arbitrum blockchain, instantly creating countless conflicts of interest, especially considering that Arbitrum is also working on AI. One of the delegates even called this a ‘crazy experiment’ — which is probably the most accurate word for it.
Still, there are talented people in NF who keep supporting the community despite all this mess.
*By ‘touching co-founders backpack’ I mean posts on any topic, full of flattery and zero criticism or real thoughts of their own by “Yes Man” people. That’s basically the formula for long-term survival inside the NF.