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Stephan
@stephancill
i give farcaster a hard time because i'm dissatisfied with the status quo of online social and feel like we have a genuine opportunity to do things differently this is why it frustrates me when farcaster leans into the same things that make traditional online social shitty thinking about it more i realized i don't actually know what farcaster is trying to achieve. does it want to solve fair distribution for creators? does it want to solve deplatforming and censorship? does it want to be a mini app platform? does it want to be a place where people make genuine connections? does it want to be a place people go for entertainment? does it want to be a composable social graph? does it want to be an app for people to discover crypto apps? i genuinely have no idea. this vacuum of direction invites people to shape their own narratives about farcaster and leads to everyone being disappointed when decisions are made that don't align with their idea of what it should be
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Steve
@stevedylandev.eth
It’s interesting because I think to some extent Farcaster does want all of that, but they’re taking the approach of doing whatever it takes to grow first (locked in because of VC funding) and then possibly gain the benefits afterwards. The other approach which arguably has been done before is building slowly but staying firm to the promises and benefits (bootstrap or dao). It’s hard to say which will actually win or be effective in the long run, and defining “win” or “effective” is pretty key as well.
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justin.ahn.eth
@ahn.eth
hate being an armchair qb (but will), i initially interpreted fc the protocol as taking the wordpress direction, which i think many early builders did too hence why there were a lot more client attempts back then - the promise of building many tiny social networks on top of an open and inteoperable distribution; and i don't think that took wp too long to achieve such scale, perhaps same amount of time fc has been operating
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