Two Paths of the Internet

Most mainstream platforms are designed with a clear logic—encouraging you to quickly express your stance, generate buzz, and win applause. The focus is on immediate engagement and dissemination.

But some Web3 communities are doing the opposite. For example, platforms like Glint, whose core mechanism is to record every prediction and opinion permanently on the blockchain, making them unchangeable or hidden. It sounds strict, but this is where the reversal occurs.

When you know that your future self ten years from now will see today's statements, you start to think more carefully. People no longer perform for immediate applause but write for their future selves. This permanence changes the entire ecosystem's texture—from pursuing traffic to seeking the authenticity of ideas.

This is the fundamental difference between decentralized communities and traditional online platforms: the difference in incentive mechanisms, which ultimately reshapes how human nature is expressed within them.