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When you get down to it, every single social media site is actually just people grinding to build their careers (aka "audiences"). In other words: It's LinkedIn-all-the-way-down... it's just that LinkedIn is the only place where everyone wears a tie. (And, funny enough, we kind of hate them for it.) Farcaster has an element of the above too, but what makes it feel different is two things: 1. It's builder oriented, with real tools for builders (mini apps, wallets). 2. It's still small enough that we can get to know real people (while being big enough that an "audience" is genuinely possible). Takeaways for me: - The Mini App + Wallet direction is right. - The Channels direction was not wrong.
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I miss the channel-era Farcaster. As someone who is building an audience purely for the kicks of it (and with nothing to sell and absolutely zero portion of my income, now or later, tied to that audience), channels were the closest thing to replacing Reddit for me, i.e. a space where anons can genuinely exchange about topics of interest from mainstream to obscure, without having to partake in the airdrop, influencoooor, or monetization game. I'm agnostic on the Mini Apps, tipping, Wallet, etc. — it's a "free digital country" in which permissionlessness requires that everybody is free to play the game they want or need, including buidling / crowdfunding / grinding / hustling if that's their thing. I just feel that there's a best-of-both-worlds version and Farcaster is currently underindexing on the other half.
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