@adrienne
Things in the broader world that have changed since I first got active on farcaster 4 years ago
- Elon took over Twitter and drastically reduced censorship and innovated hard on product
- Elon haters took to other platforms, like Bluesky or LinkedIn as a viable alternatives
- so no one really talks about the importance of censorship resistance anymore bc both sides are appeased at the moment
- crypto is not cool anymore, people don’t talk about or care about decentralization. The crypto that’s winning is more centralized and corporate
- there is so much AI slop on the internet and people are getting content-exhausted, preferring IRL moments over online (or maybe this one is just me)
It’s definitely a tough time if you want to build a censorship resistant social network where users own their identity - exponentially fewer people care about that today compared to 4 years ago
Makes me sad because I still care. The world would be better if people had more power over the giant corporate networks
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