Farcaster

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> Gun to my head I bet they believe:

1. Two classes of content creators: professionals and then amateurs. Professionals need to make enough money to live. So they will optimize for the +EV platform of audience, growth potential and ability to make money.

Amateurs are usually happy if they get anything (it's unexpected). Some are hanging out / having fun and others are focused on entirely on status (you're average Twitter account that has a day job).

2. Normal people use social apps: 1) be entertained (likely because their friends are there) and weaker but exists 2) dating 3) professional reasons. 

3. Farcaster is sub-scale on entertainment today and your friends are probably not here. Dating (not much) and professional (a bit).

4. So we have to solve for something that will get people to sign up for the app and stick around assuming their friends aren't here. Money is by far the most retentive thing we have on the network -- whether through rewards, tips, FC-native money events like DEGEN.

5. The problem with money in the forefront is it feels icky and scammy to most people. They're wary (rightfully!) that it sounds too good to be true.

6. So our hypothesis / challenge is how to product market the positive elements of a social network where everyone has a wallet and money (in the form of stablecoins, which are friendly UX) flows freely to a wider population of people (not just creators with big audiences).

ICYMI, a thorough explanation of the thought process behind Farcaster’s GTM strategy:

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Again, pedantic, but GTM is both the strategy (downstream of the hypothesis) and the set of mechanical tactics. I don't think we've refined the strategy yet, so not at the tactics stage.

True, but wasn’t sure how else to frame bullet 6 other than the current GTM

nit but not really a GTM, just a set of observations

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yeah, any advice? in this specific case as you follow me, had donated me and reply me on my cast, i tought you we're likely to join if i sent you a cast

+ i was talking about you on the stream while i did this

Candidly, not a good strategy to hijack an unrelated thread to promote your stream 

Feels spammy and makes me less likely to join

fine observations, but mostly just of the practical realities of the way social media currently works. 

I’d be willing to bet most people are on FC because they were inspired at some point by the broader vision of crypto fixing the internet. I don’t think rewards or airdrops matter much, even if large, until someone is pilled on that vision on a deep level and feel they are taking part in a shifting culture 

Most important thing imo is Farcaster presenting the vision and making it clear they are all in on it. Web2 plus $5/week is not enough for people.