I've observed a loop where newcomers latch onto welcoming "big" accounts by participating in a growing discourse centered around said accounts like pseudo celebrities which reinforces their mundane posting and makes them more relatable but then newcomers mimic this and instead get punished for "not being interesting" even though they're doing all the right things and big accounts aren't doing anything bad and it's all weird and I forgot to use punctuation and follower counts are bad okay bye

feel like it's more often the other way around, incumbents latching onto select new accounts in desperate hopes that they'll find farcaster "cool" to validate their/our own time spent here

building /quidli 🦑, casting in /justinahn, daoing in /🍊 & /🟪

which then creates a loop of new accounts that repeat key engagement farming points like "wow, fc is great" or "i can't believe i get paid to post" until the next crop of anointed new accounts takes their places

(sorry, i'm not usually so cynical)

Farcaster

One of my hot takes is that we went permissionless way too soon.

Worst type of user to be here is fully organic who just joins on a whim. Without a warm welcome (effectively an invite) they're kinda stuck in limbo forever.

Reddit only works as well as it does because of its SEO + posts not eroding due to storage costs.

Farcaster could lean on being more ephemeral which may have its benefits in today's time where AI data slurping machines are everywhere!

And yeah between channels and auth several things are all kinda half baked 😩

i feel like organic users with no algo boost and leaderboard could make cozy corners and fc as a whole work? but maybe my skeumorphic reference, reddit, is too dated?

but if not channels then at least i wish they'd give us true siwfc auth so we can attempt our own cozy corner clients

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https://farcaster.xyz/stevedv.eth/0x04f54d4a