I’m old enough to remember when you could only join Facebook if you had a college email address. That was in spring 2005, my senior year of high school. Less than a year later, Facebook opened up to anyone 13 and older. It was inevitable on the platform’s path to 2 billion users, but it also made it a lot less cool.
That tradeoff came to mind this week when Mirror, the buzzy decentralized blogging platform, opened its gates to everyone.
Prior to that, you could only get a mirror.xyz blog by finishing in the top 10 in its weekly WRITE Race, a popularity contest for two hours every Wednesday in which existing Mirror token-holders distribute votes to aspiring members. If you made the top 10, you’d earn one full WRITE token, which you could immediately spend on minting your own Mirror domain.
When Mirror launched the WRITE Race on February 26, it used a lot of idealistic language. Mirror pitched itself on its homepage (at the time) as: „Writing as usual. Publishing like never before. We’r
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