056. F.N.H.H. It’s pronounced sip.
Gang gang,
We know. It’s been a hard day HODLING the line at ~$100 for $clout. We refuse to see double digits! All drinks are on @BitsTODAY tonight for your valiant service in this important battle ⚔️. Same goes for our coverage of the latest news and hot ‘gos on BitClout. That’s still free too, as it’s always been.
ICYMI, tonight’s drink special is still the hearty dose of reality @dripcult is serving in our latest special edition from last night. Give it a taste 💪.
Guest cover design by@WilliamLaurentcurrently judging on @ArtTank and co-founder of @galleria.
Bits on the menu tonight:
BuzzClout: Exclusive updates from @bitcloutsignal and @bithunt ⚡️
Ubiquitous UX drops: (C)ocktails (i)n (p)rocess 🍸
International ‘clout: Instant nodles 🍜
Project Focus: @Prosperclout reveals your fav drinking budd-ees 🍻
F.N.H.H op-eds: 💎s are a creator’s best friend 🍻
Diamondhands’ drops 💎
#1 BuzzClout
Ok ok, while there’s still a lick of sobriety in this joint, let’s explore today’s movers and shakers, brought to you by @bitcloutsignal:
Next up, while we shake your cocktails, here’s a round (😉) of news from the project sphere on BitClout, presented by our partners at @bithunt:
#2 Ubiquitous UX drops: (C)ocktails (i)n (p)rocess 🍸
@Maebeam may be a bit late to the party. Like … a month late. But hey, better late than never. Welcome, Maemae, what’re you having? Mae-jito? 🍹
For context, for weeks now we’ve been asking … Wen CIP?
@Maebeam first started marking herself as the assignee with the job of setting up a repository for “clout improvement proposals” more than a month ago; as early as edition 042 we noted she has missed a few self-set deadlines.
Similar to NFTs, we reckon that the dev team allowed themselves more time to source feedback from a select group of community members on this one. Regardless of what happened behind closed doors, the CIP repo is now live!
What’s the net net here? @Maebeam’s post lays it out pretty succinctly. Here’s additional description of the function the repo serves on the CIP board:
“The CIPs repo allows developers to submit proposals for major features to get feedback and buy-in from the community prior to submitting code for review.
BitClout is not a company, and it doesn’t have a board or CEO. Instead, it has a committed developer community that collaborates via this repo.”
The dev team has already gotten more and more responsive and proactive in terms of taking community input, approving peoples’ pull requests and integrating proposals in recent weeks. What the early days of this CIP repo should offer is way for our community to more seamlessly organize around proposals deemed urgent and important, which in turn will help the ‘core’ team prioritize and filter. Remember, longer-term, there shouldn’t be a ‘core’ team gatekeeping proposals either; if the community votes in favor of a proposal, there will come a day where devs will then be free to build it without outside approval (we assume and hope).
As notes @mubashariqbal, as of yet, things are “… a bit chaotic… so many issues/discussions, and not really organized (core, backend, fronted, all, etc.) so hard to get thru them all.” As with all things BitClout, it’s a WIP, and it’s up to us to recommend improvements, even to the repository for improvement recommendations … (#meta). And still, despite some good chaos, as with all things @mubashariqbal, one of his proposals already got approved 🎉!
In sum? Small step for mae-kind, big ol’ step for decentralization 🌙.
#3 International ‘clout: Instant nodles 🍜
What’s the best way to practice those foreign language skills you haven’t used since your summer aboard sophomore year of college? Get in with a few native speakers, knock back a few 🍺s and just go for it.
Of course, if you’re looking to hone your Spanish or Russian, there’s no need to hop off BitClout either. This week, we saw a few new nodes for international BitClout communities go live. The first one? @RuCloutru, created by @alisher and @nikmcfly:
Of course, this isn’t just exciting for global communities and for native speakers looking to connect with other kindred creators. It’s an important step forward in terms of BitClout accessibility for non-English speakers across the world (all 6.5B+ of them).
Meanwhile, with dedicated devs like @tijn introducing ways for non-devs to spin up their own frontends for BitClout, anyone can go pop up a new international page (or a page for any other community, for that matter):
And for those of us who are English speakers? We reckon if you ask nicely, new international nodes will let you come practice your Spanish (or any other language). For instance, ditch your Duolingo and go hang out on bitcloutespañol.com. Sorry, scary Duolingo owl 🦉.
#4 Project Focus: @Prosperclout reveals your fav drinking budd-ees 🍻
Now that many folks are hitting their 100 day clout-iversaries on BitClout, another fun question to ask ourselves is … who do we kick it with most out here? One way to visualize propinquity with other creators is by charting transaction flows, e.g. with the networks @Neurally presented in our latest Big Brain edition (check it out here).
Another new way to evaluate with which creators you spend time and have stuff in common? Thanks to @prosperclout, creators can now explore which other creators they’re most frequently tagged in posts with.
While this functionality sparked a lot of joy, it comes amidst a deeper push from @prosperclout to increase the arsenal of analytical weapons creators have to evaluate investments, content strategies, and identify partnership (and drinking buddy) opportunities.
Nor is @salilsethi, founder of @prosperclout, alone in his push deeper into clout analytics. He continues to team up with BC OG, @maz, and his show, the @cloutroom, to bring content that elaborates on how to use @prosperclout to the masses in an informative way. If you haven’t yet, scope their latest vid on diamond transactions. Not just because they’re the homies and because we’ve been writing about diamonds a lot (and more of that coming right up!) — this is A1 content 👌
Hope y’all have had some fun (and maybe even learned something to?). We’ll catch you right back here on Sunday for our weekend recap.
@BitsTODAY