@aviationdoctor.eth
Farcaster didn’t fail because of onboarding friction, a crypto bias, token rugs, node centralization, spooky VC money, or poor stewardship.
Farcaster ultimately failed because of LinkedIn-level PGness in the feed. Everyone here (myself included) was just too polite, polished, and milquetoast (which is not the same as mid).
We didn’t have enough open controversies and spicy takes on sex, drugs, crime, morality, religion, wars, pop culture, and your mom. Even the occasional outrage tended to be collective instead of factional, because we were too neighborly to turn on one another.
With a few exceptions, we’ve been casting to each other as if we might meet later that day at a VC luncheon in the Bay Area, and had a FID-reputation to maintain.
To be clear, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this very aspect of an intellectual and nuanced cozy corner of the internet.
But it was a PvE experience, and PvE servers are stuck with low player counts
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