Over the previous couple of years, I’ve moved my web life from web2 to web3 and infrequently use any web2 providers anymore.
So I’m beginning a collection known as “I’ve Moved Onchain” to elucidate this journey to everybody and right this moment’s opening submit is about running a blog, naturally.
I’ve blogged at AVC.com for a really very long time. I began out in September 2003 at avc.typepad.com however moved to avc.com a couple of years later.
AVC.com has been my residence for running a blog for over twenty years.
AVC.com has served me very nicely over time however it lacks a couple of issues that basically matter to me.
First, the posts are saved in a closed database hosted by me within the cloud.
Second, the providers that I exploit to create AVC.com aren’t “composable” that means that others can’t construct issues on prime of AVC.com and the providers that create and show the posts I create right here.
Third, the identities of the authors (me) and readers (you) right here at AVC.com aren’t tied to any type of transportable id and status system.
Whereas none of those points might look like an enormous deal to you, they’re enormous deal to me as I’ll clarify in a bit.
So when web3 running a blog providers began cropping up, I began to make use of them.
My first rodeo was at Mirror.xyz the place I stored avc.mirror.xyz for many of 2021, 2022, and 2023. This was my first submit at avc.mirror.xyz on March 18, 2021.
I actually needed to weblog at AVC.xyz and that turned an possibility for me in November 2023 after I joined Paragraph.xyz and wrote this Hi there World submit.
These web3 running a blog platforms retailer all of my posts onchain at Arweave. These posts can be found to anybody to learn no matter what running a blog platform I exploit. And if I get kidnapped by an alien and fail to pay my internet hosting service, they are going to nonetheless exist onchain. Eternally. That’s an enormous deal to me.
They’re additionally composable web3 providers. Any developer can take what I create at AVC.xyz and construct on prime of it. That’s additionally an enormous deal to me. My companion Nick describes the composability profit so nicely in his submit right this moment on USV.com.
And my id and the id of my readers are mapped to a web3 pockets deal with that authenticates who they’re, what they do onchain, and permits builders to create status methods on everybody. Given my combat with spam and trolls and jerks and assholes that largely drove me away from running a blog and commenting within the latter a part of the final decade, this final bit actually issues to me.
At the beginning of this yr, I took everybody who receives an e-mail after I submit right here at AVC.com and imported that e-mail listing to Paragraph.xyz. So a whole lot of the AVC readers have been getting emails of my posts at AVC.xyz this yr. Besides, I nonetheless get a ton of every day visitors right here at AVC.com and I’ve not posted something new right here since January 10, 2024.
I don’t plan to submit right here at AVC.com going ahead, however I’ll hold the archive up and I’ll select to cross-post a factor or two right here at any time when I wish to attain the broadest viewers.
My residence for running a blog is and has been onchain for some time now and if you wish to comply with my writing, please go go to avc.xyz and subscribe to obtain my weblog posts by way of e-mail by clicking the inexperienced subscribe button on the higher proper.
However what about Mirror.xyz and avc.mirror.xyz? you would possibly ask.
Effectively, I’m additionally thrilled to have the ability to say that Mirror and Paragraph have merged and these two main web3 running a blog providers will now be one. And, as you could know or suspect, USV has invested in each of them and now will likely be a significant shareholder within the merged firm. I’m very enthusiastic about that. Right here is Paragraph’s weblog submit in regards to the transaction and right here is Mirror’s.
The workforce that constructed Mirror.xyz is now turning their consideration to a brand new app known as Kiosk they usually blogged about that right this moment. So USV is now additionally an investor in that challenge.
Over the past thirty years, our lives moved from offline to on-line. They’re now transferring onchain. That’s an exquisite factor and I hope you’ll be part of me in transferring onchain as nicely.
