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We just shared a sneak peek of the upcoming Degen App: https://blog.degen.tips/degen-app-sneak-peak. It's built for tipping, channels, and better conversations.

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"Community-aligned, simple to use, and rewards the right behaviors"

I thought farcaster was striving towards this also?

I guess what I don't understand is:

- why build something so similar to farcaster?
- why splinter the community into smaller pieces?

I understand tipping is not sustainable, but idk how we got HERE.

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Because Farcaster clearly rewards the wrong behaviors right now. The general idea was great though, so this project actually makes a lot of sense.

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The core problem here is that there seem to be conflicting visions of what Farcaster is, or what it should be about.

If the goal is to create a social network (which is usually understood as ‘social media’ of some sort), many of the growth ideas are likely counterproductive, or indeed self-sabotaging. To anyone outside a narrow niche, these flaws are obvious.

But if the intent is to build a semi-social protocol centered on speculation and value extraction, then those very decisions might make perfect sense. The catch is that such a model has a rather hard ceiling on growth.

In practice, these two goals may be fundamentally at odds. (or at least they are up to a certain point)

(‘wrong’ as far as human interactions are concerned)

(‘wrong’ as far as human interactions are concerned)
https://farcaster.xyz/azbest/0x62490d1e

I understand it’s also about attracting new users (that won’t find the current state of affairs compelling), and that seems like a rather moderate way to go about it!

Farcaster is still in its infancy.  I believe they will iterate and adjust, as they've done since day 1.

I understand that no one has quite figured out the proper way to incentivize people for good contributions but spreading those users out, doesn't seem to be the way.