Worldbuilding with FWB – ZORA ZINE

Dexter Tortoriello: In Miami, at our first-ever IRL event at the conference, we had this ramshackle gatekeeper. It was a token-gated RSVP list that got sent to the venue. I didn't go to Miami; I was at home sitting on Discord, watching it all go down. I started getting DMs from people who were standing outside the club who couldn’t get in. There wa... See more

Patti Hauseman: We have all of these localized city channels within FWB and they're super active. I think LA and New York are the most active, just due to the number of people that we have that are our most active markets, the most members. One of the bigger initiatives that we're going to be doing in the coming months is DAOs. We're going to ... See more

Ariel Lebeau: In my approach to editorial, everything comes from the community first. Whether we're compiling the digest or considering what kind of pieces we want to develop for our long-form platform, it all starts with what kind of conversations are developing organically within the community already and paying really close attention to the exch... See more

If FWB is creating culture and the people who are the cultural producers are inhabiting our Discord, then we think it’s okay for people to charge a premium to access that culture, as long as there are different entry points across the spectrum for people to participate. FWB started to really feel a lot more like a city where token holders get to so... See more

Alex Zhang: I hope that FWB can experiment with different governance, governing models. Any internet state you’re building requires governance as a consensus agreed-upon form of organizing, with rules and regulations and accountability. Daniel Keller had a funny tweet where he was like, five friends are deciding to split the check at dinner — is th... See more

Alex Zhang: We started thinking about the channels within the Discord as like distinct neighborhoods — like how in New York City, people in the Upper East Side and Bushwick are both New Yorkers, and there are different value sets and price points and cultural norms in each of those neighborhoods. Just like the trading crypto channel can be differen... See more

Patti Hauseman: Yeah. We’re building an onboarding system where new members receive one-on-one help doing anything from setting up their wallets to guiding them to different channels. That might be great because the Discord can be a little overwhelming. It's about 48 people that have volunteered to help new members onboard.

Mike Bodge: Yeah. We're not on Twitter. We're not all hanging out on Twitter, like blasting all our messages to the world. Like we're actually creating these smaller communities. Part of the magic of FWB is putting the community first.