a silly story about a blockchain project I'm really loving right now that brought me back around to attaching the music I love to my public identity to connect over it while chatting with @oAcido one night in April he mentioned the word "scrobble," and it ended up with us laugh-crying about a terrible old FunHaus video from the elder internet. But it came from his idea that this is a perfect way to use an instant, feeless transaction to build cool services to bring people together. For the next little while we chatted about it back and forth as he pondered bringing it to life; what it should be called, how to use it to bridge the gap between on the chain and off the chain (and how to make it feel smoother than web2, because why would we want to go backwards on our neenernet expectations?!) and my adhd brain ended up locked into intrusive yell thoughts of 𝙎𝘾𝙍𝙊𝘽𝘽𝙇𝙀𝙎! 𝙎𝘾𝙍𝙊𝘽𝘽𝙇𝙀𝙎 𝙄𝙎 𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙔'𝙍𝙀 𝙂𝙊𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙏𝙊 𝘽𝙀 𝘾𝘼𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘿! for months (complete with dissolutions into giggle fits. 𝙎 𝙏 𝙃 𝘾 𝙍 𝙊 𝘽 𝘽 𝙇 𝙀 𝙎) My guy had an MVP in a week. In a month, there was Music with Memory, and a host of little mini games and quests and connections to offchain social platforms. The gap between thinking and enjoying and experimenting and deploying is so small now... we can just do things! So here we are at the end of the year, and I'm scrobblin all the time now. It takes me back to one of my favourite parts of the internet before everything here became about optimizing yourself to someone else's algo in the hopes they'll drain you dry but throw you a few pennies. I love the cover mosaic as a shifting, rebuildable and verifiable representation of who I am right now through what pleases my ears and eyes; I love how elegant and easy the instant pulls from the chain that build my taste profiles and suggestions against others are made possible from this app, that could be used by many others. There's something nostalgic about it, and it also proves just how easily how this type of data can be fully voluntarily decentralized without choking up a blockchain (tbf you gotta have a good one, thanks @hiveblocks), costing your crypto, and with the goal of fun and creating a gathering place and marketplace of possibility in mind. go forth and do the things, try out the things that others do because they're cool and fun and serve you, versus because you're twisting yourself to serve someone or something else ok anyways, it's something that I have up pretty much all of the time while I'm coding and working now and it allows me to be buttsniffy about all the weird and interesting metal I enjoy so here you go 𝘽𝙀𝙃𝙊𝙇𝘿 𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙀 𝘽𝙀𝘼𝙐𝙏𝙄𝙁𝙐𝙇 𝙎𝘾𝙍𝙊𝘽𝘽𝙇𝙀𝙎 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙏𝙍𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙇𝙀 youtu.be/ZR8az1UMOiQ