I think the biggest vibe shift people are picking up on is that merkle focusing on video is a rare* shift away from making farcaster better for the people who are already here vs. trying to attract new people who are not.
They arenโt focusing on video because we asked them to, itโs because our so called friends who we wont invite here are watching video on other platforms.
Itโs like if your boyfriend asks what your hottest friends favorite food is , and then starts making it is every night with the hope sheโll stop by.
The text lovers who have been here daily for years may be feeling a sense of loss, or small lack of appreciation
But its good to remember that unless farcaster scales multiple orders of magnitude , it will someday shut down and weโll call it a good science experiment , fun while it lasted
Dan and V are talented founders, and they have tons of good traits, maybe best of all is a relentless determination to keep trying new things, day after day, and literally year after year.
Theyโve earned enough of my trust by showing up, being transparent, and keeping their word, that I will never not let them cook or run new experiments
If farcaster as a protocol is successful, we can always go build a text based app that has all the vibes of the old days. But you know what? Weโll have grown as people and weโll be different by then, and we wont want to go back.
Change is the only constant.
Choo choo lets fuck around and find out.
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