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lol periodically seeing takes on ct about gradient like > farmed node for a year and project disappeared > tge never happening > 0 potential > top useless projects but ct really became full of mindless engagement farmers people see one post from a kol copy the opinion do absolutely zero research beyond the headline and honestly current reality is that people are just too lazy for everything meanwhile @Gradient_HQ has been doing one of the cleanest silent builds i’ve seen in a while > tweets every single week consistently > perfectly timed movement into the LLM meta, training, inference, cost reduction and advanced ai infra > organic user growth and one of the best role systems in dc without farming community > multiple already launched and WORKING products (for exp @tryParallax, @commonstack_ai) > no useless obsession with cheap & hype engagement marketing > already moved far beyond the "browser node / depin farming / grass 2.0" category into AI infra R&D + distributed inference + distributed RL > working with top universities around LLM acceleration, training and testing > followed by ceos, researchers and top ai engineers from actual labs > people genuinely inside the project are real enthusiasts, before everyone started putting that word in bio for mindless aesthetics > know at least one more product currently cooking > backed by @PanteraCapital & @multicoin btw funds historically backing actual core infrastructure pieces that end up shaping entire sectors ($10M seed round) > actual BIG focus on reducing inference costs > community manager gifting aston martins to the most active community members ) THINK OPEN BUILD OPEN

i draw very rarely these days but for this lovely couple @0xbliink & @goodwaitik with gladly welcome and ofc @AlloMoses69463

honestly, i don’t even know where to start. at first i thought this post should begin with an apology. but when my emotions settled, i realized i have nothing to apologize for. so i’ll just tell it like it is what happened? @re team just announced, without any warning or prior context, that they’re shutting down the roles system and dc in the form it existed up until today. the new idea is to turn it into an investor-focused space :) i’m not here to judge them. maybe they know better. maybe it’s not my place anymore, and honestly that part doesn’t matter. what i want to talk about is something else i joined re six months ago. back then, if i’m being honest, there were maybe 30 active people on the server. i was invited by my close friend and basically my only one at the time, @stepaks576. that’s where the story began. for six straight months, i did everything i possibly could to build a truly real community. spoiler: it was insanely hard. but we did it. you don’t have to believe me, but i gave re my soul. my heart. my time. my ideas. my love. i was building for 10 hours a day. every day. every month. and it was incredible. yes, there were mistakes. yes, there were experiments. lots of trying new things. a lot of learning. but the result was insane. what we built together in half a year is massive progress. i received hundreds of messages saying people found a second home in re. that re had a soul. not to mention the visibility and growth this gave the project. i’m proud of that. i truly believe we did it right most of the ideas were either mine or built and shipped with my direct involvement. i did it genuinely, from the heart. i spent literally all my time on this community. you only do that when you truly love what you’re building. we tried to make @re the best. something unique. we valued real people. we fought ai slop with everything we had. we did collabs. we supported our members in a way you rarely see anywhere else. but sometimes things happen that are out of your control. this was my first experience in a role like this. and it was the best experience of my life. full of hope and creative freedom. and honestly, i believe i did everything i could. probably even more. but. in the eyes of the team, i’m just "another community member" like everyone else. part of the crew. part of a ship they decided to sink. maybe that’s why my pirate persona fits so well. i won’t run away from the ship. i’ll do everything i can so that my crew - and for me, my crew is you, the community - knows the truth and makes it out. if i go down alone, so be it. at least i’ll know i did everything i could. this decision wasn’t mine. it was the team’s. and trust me, there was no ceremony around it. i wasn’t even told personally. today was a regular friday. tasks, plans, future ideas. work was in full motion :) now none of it matters. i know most people won’t read this far. but if you’re still here, i want to say this. thank you. sincerely. to every real person who stood with me this whole time. you’re one of the strongest communities i’ve ever seen - and we barely had time. thank you to the helpers. the best people i’ve ever worked with. thank you to those who hosted events. thank you to those who created insane content and brought creativity. thank you to those who carried the vibe. thank you to those who were real. thank you, @ChazEevee you’re the best thing that happened to me in web3. i’m sure our friendship will last for years. you’re the best partner and leader i’ve ever worked with, period. kindness, freedom, professionalism, wisdom, creativity - that’s you. you’re the best thing i got from re. thank you, @st3phdoteth you were always involved, always open to ideas, never afraid to try, and most importantly - you listened. truly listened. thank you for giving me the chance to be who i dreamed of being. to create. to lead. to see my ideas resonate. thank you for the trust. once again - i genuinely fell in love with our warm, cozy community. there was zero personal gain for me in this. only a big idea and a dream to build something bigger. what’s happening now is just as unexpected for me as it is for you, and it had absolutely nothing to do with me. you probably can’t fully understand how i feel right now. it feels like a piece of me was torn away, and there will always be a scar there. what’s next? i don’t know. but as one wise man once said: here it is. it turned out to be a pretty good story: interesting, fun, sometimes a little sad, and most importantly - instructive. it taught us to be brave and not to fear the challenges that life prepares for us. but most importantly, this story could have had a happy ending. Vika agreed to stay in Moscow, and i became a head chef; we would have worked together again < 3