Fascinating article, Callum! I hadn't heard about the Insta changes but this sounds like a good thing. I have a legal background, too (not in IP law, though) so I appreciated reading your thoughts on copyright. There's such a discrepancy between law and reality on Social Media at the moment, it feels like the Wild West.
Thanks for letting me know! Appreciate a lawyer’s perspective of course! What kind of law do you do?
And I completely agree.. it’s been broken for so long, it’s kind of laughable (if there weren’t so many people having their copyright infringed constantly)
I hope we’ll see more media companies taking copyright theft seriously after this update, but in my opinion, nothing will compare to the power of enabling digital ownership via blockchain 🤷♂️
Until companies do that, we’ll forever be playing catch up with the thieves and AI scraping
Tbh I’ve been putting very little time into anything aside from farcaster.
Farcaster enables token based media rather than “posting” so it’s effectively a cross platform network
As an example, there will be a Farcaster Twitter/reddit (Warpcast), a substack (paragraph), a yt, TikTok, etc. so I only have to build an audience once, and my entire social graph comes with me 😊
I’ll test out insta’s algorithm but will likely still put almost all of my energy into Farcaster
Fascinating article, Callum! I hadn't heard about the Insta changes but this sounds like a good thing. I have a legal background, too (not in IP law, though) so I appreciated reading your thoughts on copyright. There's such a discrepancy between law and reality on Social Media at the moment, it feels like the Wild West.
Thanks for letting me know! Appreciate a lawyer’s perspective of course! What kind of law do you do?
And I completely agree.. it’s been broken for so long, it’s kind of laughable (if there weren’t so many people having their copyright infringed constantly)
I hope we’ll see more media companies taking copyright theft seriously after this update, but in my opinion, nothing will compare to the power of enabling digital ownership via blockchain 🤷♂️
Until companies do that, we’ll forever be playing catch up with the thieves and AI scraping
Super interesting download on the changes to the insta algorithm... how do you split your time between here and there?
Thanks! Glad you think so
Tbh I’ve been putting very little time into anything aside from farcaster.
Farcaster enables token based media rather than “posting” so it’s effectively a cross platform network
As an example, there will be a Farcaster Twitter/reddit (Warpcast), a substack (paragraph), a yt, TikTok, etc. so I only have to build an audience once, and my entire social graph comes with me 😊
I’ll test out insta’s algorithm but will likely still put almost all of my energy into Farcaster
Ahhh interesting! Well I'll definitely take a look at farcaster - sounds cool