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I've been looking at what @DSCVR1 is doing these days, and it got me thinking about the whole DSCVR story. Especially how things have turned out compared to @TAGGRsocial. I remember DSCVR when it was one of the most talked-about social platforms on $ICP. It launched in 2021 with the ambition of becoming a decentralized alternative to traditional social media. In 2022, they raised $9 million in funding, led by Polychain Capital. By 2023, they had already passed 200,000 users. Then came Solana. I still remember how disappointed, even angry, many people in the ICP community were when DSCVR decided to shift its focus toward Solana. Some reacted as if ICP had just lost its entire future in decentralized social media. And DSCVR kept announcing impressive numbers. Hundreds of thousands of users, growing partnerships, Canvas integrations, and eventually a reported one million monthly unique visitors in 2024. Pretty impressive, at least on paper. Although looking back, I do wonder how many of those visitors were genuinely interested in the social platform and how many were simply chasing rewards, NFTs, and airdrops. That's something I've always questioned about growth statistics in Web3. Fast forward to 2025–2026, and DSCVR has taken another direction. Now it's AI agents, prediction markets, smart money signals, and market intelligence. And that's fine. I have absolutely nothing against projects adapting or trying something different when their original business model isn't working. Perhaps DSCVR will find its real success in AI. Who knows? But here's what I find interesting. I recently went back to DSCVR to see what had become of the social platform. I used Internet Identity back when it was on ICP, and now I can't even access my account. The site is practically unusable for me, and browsing around only reinforced the impression that the original social platform has become a graveyard. Quite a contrast to all those impressive numbers we used to hear about. Meanwhile, there's TAGGR. Let's be fair. TAGGR never experienced anything close to DSCVR's growth, funding, or publicity. Its community is small, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But years later, it's still running on ICP, still being developed, and still doing what it was originally built to do. There's also a genuine effort to make the platform sustainable over the long term. And yes, I still use it. Simply because I enjoy using it. Not because somebody pays me to promote it or because I expect it to become the next X. The funny part? The other day, some guy accused us of "trying to revive TAGGR." 😂 I've heard people declare TAGGR dead so many times over the years that I've honestly lost count. Revive what, exactly? The platform is still there. I can log in, publish, interact with people, and use it just as I have for years. Meanwhile, I can't even access the platform that once had all those hundreds of thousands of users. There's a certain irony in that. I have no idea what the future holds for either project. DSCVR might become successful with its AI products, and TAGGR might remain a relatively small social platform. I'm perfectly comfortable with both possibilities. But following these projects over the years has made me increasingly skeptical of impressive user statistics, enormous funding rounds, and endless announcements about the next big thing. None of those things necessarily tells you much about what will still be around five years later. Anyway, I'm going back to TAGGR. Apparently, it still needs reviving. 😂 #TAGGR post: taggr.link/post/1461018

A photographer, a musician, a ceramic artist, or someone restoring old motorcycles. Different interests, but something in common: they want to share what they love with people who genuinely appreciate it. TAGGR post 👉 taggr.link/post/1460962 That's where Realms on @TAGGRsocial come in. You can discover communities built around practically any interest, exchange ideas, learn from others, or create a Realm of your own. For artists and creators, a Realm can become something more than just another social feed. Think of it as your personal showcase... a place to document your creative process, share unfinished experiments, display completed work, and build a community around what you do. You can keep it open to everyone or create a more exclusive space where you decide who gets access. And here's what makes TAGGR particularly interesting: your media can live in your own dedicated storage canister, maintained and funded by you. That comes with responsibility, but also gives you much greater control over your digital work. All of this runs on $ICP, with publishing and communities built into a fully onchain social network. You don't need to be interested in crypto to find a reason to use TAGGR. You just need something you're passionate about. Find your people. Or create a place where they can find you.

Realms on @TAGGRsocial aren’t tied to geography. They’re built around interests, ideas, work, culture, hobbies, and the people who actually care about them. A photographer in Slovenia, a designer in Japan, a researcher in Canada, and a musician in Brazil can all end up in the same Realm for the same reason: they have something in common. Some Realms can stay open. Some can be more selective. Some can simply become a permanent home for a niche community that would otherwise be scattered across different platforms. That’s the point. Communities without borders, built around what matters — fully on-chain on $ICP. #TAGGR