Thanks for taking the time to write all of this, @beylin!
While I agree with @garyschulte that your experience feels quite different from mine, I think you and @ryanberckmans raise a few good points.
Having hosted a few Bankless episodes myself, I’m definitely guilty of this! I don’t think this is anything to blame them for, though: they make it extremely easy for people like me to reach a large audience interested in Ethereum when we have important things to communicate. That said, I can see how myself and others at the EF “defaulting to Bankless” for podcasts can lead to this perception. I’ll do better here going forward.
I strongly agree with this. We also need a better digitial town square for our social layer than social media like Twitter/Lens/Farcaster. My hope is we can gradually make Ethereum Magicians this place. It hasn’t received enough maintenance these past few years and it’s something we’ve been trying to improve. @nicocsgy has been hugely helpful here!
I’m also sympathetic to this (see above) but will note that your suggestions around “the edges of the network” are a bit contradictory with your previous sentiment that Vitalik has ignored the most valuable use cases for the chain.
These things aren’t necessarily in conflict (we can do better at celebrating both), but hopefully this highlights some of the challenges in calibrating here.
To the extent I can, I’m happy to help with this!