🧵 What is @LensProtocol?
Basically it's a fully on-chain social graph created by the nice folks over at @AaveAave.
They've done all the hard work for web3 devs by making it super simple to create social dapps using their social primitives.
Let's break it down.
Basically it's a fully on-chain social graph created by the nice folks over at @AaveAave.
They've done all the hard work for web3 devs by making it super simple to create social dapps using their social primitives.
Let's break it down.
@LensProtocol @AaveAave @LensProtocol works by making everything an NFT essentially.
User profiles are NFTs owned by a single wallet. When someone follows your profile they are issued a follow NFT.
Every user profile can also create the following:
- Publications/Posts
- Comments
- Mirrors
User profiles are NFTs owned by a single wallet. When someone follows your profile they are issued a follow NFT.
Every user profile can also create the following:
- Publications/Posts
- Comments
- Mirrors
@LensProtocol @AaveAave Each of those are also NFTs. It's basically NFTs all the way down.
Publications are the base primitive. These would ideally represent a blog post, tweet, photo or any other type of social media.
Posts can then have comments and mirrors associated with them.
Publications are the base primitive. These would ideally represent a blog post, tweet, photo or any other type of social media.
Posts can then have comments and mirrors associated with them.
@LensProtocol @AaveAave The real power of this comes from the different modules you can add to your profiles and posts.
Users can require others to pay a set amount of tokens before they can follow (think @Patreon).
They then can allow only those holding their follower NFT to comment or mirror posts.
Users can require others to pay a set amount of tokens before they can follow (think @Patreon).
They then can allow only those holding their follower NFT to comment or mirror posts.
@LensProtocol @AaveAave @Patreon Users can also collect posts. This makes sense since a post is just an NFT. This means its pretty trivial for users to mint NFTs or collections of NFTs for their followers to collect.
By adding a collection module to their posts they can also set a price in tokens.
By adding a collection module to their posts they can also set a price in tokens.
@LensProtocol @AaveAave @Patreon Comments are similar to posts in that they can be collected and mirrored (retweeted/shared). They reference a post but are owned by the profile that created them.
Comments can have similar collection rules applied.
Comments can have similar collection rules applied.
@LensProtocol @AaveAave @Patreon Mirrors are the @LensProtocol equivalent of retweets or shares. They help to amplify posts and comments in the social graph.
They can't be collected though and can only be mirrored themselves.
They can't be collected though and can only be mirrored themselves.
@LensProtocol @AaveAave @Patreon @LensProtocol provides a simple GraphQL API to allow developers to easily work with the protocol. They also index everything so there is no need to roll your own indexer or server-side infrastructure. Third party subgraphs are also being built right now.
@LensProtocol @AaveAave @Patreon @LensProtocol is the social protocol web3 fans have been screaming for and this is just the beginning of a new era of social media. This thread only scratches the surface.
To learn more, check out the official docs.
docs.lens.xyz/docs
To learn more, check out the official docs.
docs.lens.xyz/docs
So this is by far the most engagement I've ever gotten on Twitter. I guess I'll use this brief flash of popularity to plug my YouTube channel as well. If you're a dev and interested in Web3 related content, consider checking it out and subscribing. 🤓
youtube.com/c/whatthefunc
youtube.com/c/whatthefunc
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