The founder argues decentralization is essential for healthy competition in social media, envisioning a shared data layer that allows multiple clients and interfaces to coexist.

He calls for broader participation in Lens, Farcaster, and the wider decentralized social space in 2026 to move beyond single-platform information battles toward a more open, competitive frontier.

He urges the community to engage across decentralized ecosystems and move beyond a single centralized “info warzone” as new forms of online interaction emerge.

Mask Network will assume stewardship of Lens Protocol, a blockchain-based social graph enabling interoperable apps and user-owned identities and content, originally incubated by Aave.

Lens’s leadership transition—from Aave to Mask Network—will push consumer-ready, on-chain social applications forward.

He contrasts SocialFi with creator-subscription models like Substack, arguing creators-subscription better aligns incentives with high-quality content.

Farcaster recently announced leadership changes after Neynar acquired it from Merkle, a move aimed at unlocking its potential as it reports over two million registered users and significant daily interactions.

He criticizes crypto-native SocialFi projects for relying on speculative tokens, saying these incentives reward existing social capital and short-term price moves rather than content quality.

He coins the term “corposlop” to describe profit-driven platforms that use tokens to manipulate users and harm discourse, preferring teams that prioritize social interaction over financial engineering.

In 2026, he has shifted toward decentralized platforms, using Firefly as a multi-client interface to access X, Lens, Farcaster, and Bluesky, signaling a move away from centralized ecosystems and planning more activity on decentralized platforms.

Across projects, he praises efforts that avoid speculative tokens and focus on improving user experience and content quality, including Lens under Mask Network.

The landscape is framed as decentralized social media built on open networks where identities and content are user-controlled, with mass adoption still a work in progress.