How to Participate

This section outlines where and how each ecosystem participant interacts with the lens.fun platform.

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1. For Readers: Discovering the "Real Words"

• Where: The lens.fun main application/website.

• How: Accessing the platform is simple and open. Readers can browse the feed of curated content, which has already been filtered for quality by the Curation mechanism.

• Key Action: Read, consume, and trust the content. The primary value for Readers is consuming the "Signal" without having to sift through the "Noise."

2. For Creators: Submitting Your Content

• Where: The Creator Portal within the lens.fun application.

• How:

  1. Connect: Authenticate your identity or wallet.

  2. Submit: Provide a link to your original content (e.g., Medium, Substack, personal blog) or use our native editor (if available).

  3. Stake (if required): Depending on the final mechanism, a small submission fee or stake (in lens.fun tokens) may be required to prevent spam. This stake is returned if the content is successfully curated.

  4. Await Curation: Your content enters the review queue for the Curators.

• Outcome: If your content is approved by the Curators, it is published to the main feed and you become eligible for a payout from the 'Reward Pool'.

3. For Curators: Voting for Quality

• Where: The Curation Portal / Internal Governance Dashboard.

• How:

  1. Qualify: You must meet the criteria for being a Curator, either by A) Staking a required amount of lens.fun tokens or B) Being Vetted as an expert.

  2. Review: Access the queue of content submitted by Creators.

  3. Vote: Use your allocated voting power to signal whether a piece of content meets the lens.fun quality standard ("Real") or if it is "Hype."

• Outcome: Your votes contribute to the consensus. Honest and accurate curation (voting with the majority on "real" content) upholds the platform's value and, by extension, your own stake in the ecosystem.