A Little Bit of Tribalism in Ethereum is Good Actually "It's bad to be tribal in crypto because it clouds your thinking. You should just call balls and strikes, you should have no allegiance to any chain or project or philosophy." This is particularly popular among devs in the Ethereum ecosystem. Fine, but it must be balanced with another fact: blockchains are networks. You can build the best crypto protocol, but if an inferior one gets more users/members that one actually is the better one. Please read that again. So for your science project to matter, you must recruit members. And we all benefit by being a little tribally committed to each other's protocols: we're all working on Ethereum, I'll use your project, you use mine, we all win. And we need to recruit new members. There are too many devs, particularly in the Ethereum ecosystem, who think they can just build and not "get their hands dirty" with tribalism. They might even signal their superiority every now and then by attacking Ethereum tribalism. But they are free riding on that tribalism. Yes, tribalism can be taking to extremes where people completely lose touch with reality, and that should be avoided. But so should be freeriding. We want constructive criticism coming from a place of trying to build up the tribe, not pretending that the tribe doesn't matter.