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@itsbasil
sometimes i get restless about farcaster’s pace, then i open x, bluesky, or reddit & remember: fc is still the least toxic room on the public forum everything we grumble about here—hyper-financialization, ai sludge, echo-chamber groupthink—exists everywhere else at 10× scale that’s not a farcaster flaw; it’s the web in 2025… open forums can’t sustain real signal bots, yield-seekers, and low-effort content overwhelm niche expertise… as the dead-internet materializes, real conversation will retreat behind walls the winning pattern is small, curated networks: 15-person group chats, 150-member private servers—numbers that track with dunbar’s limits on trust—these groups have almost exclusively pushed the world forward these last 20 years… nations, firms & creators that control their own walled gardens capture both mind-share & margin… geopolitically, socially, philosophically… the future is not “open” despite what the technocrats tell you it’s closed
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@itsbasil
in a world of slop, humans will seek real intimacy & human connection… for farcaster to lead this shift it must double-down on channels to me, this looks something like: - poach tightly-knit expert communities (a few thousand people each) and their followership will cascade in - equip moderators with robust tooling & a new rewards tier—curating is a full-time job (community should build this tbh & it’s currently the biggest hurdle) - treat “closed but discoverable” spaces as a core product, not a feature add-on we now have the integrations to incentivize proper community formation… as large-scale social drifts toward trump–musk spectacles & promo bots, we have to engineer smaller rooms & pay the people who keep them healthy if we want genuine connection & high-signal discourse
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@danner
What about a different client that shows channels more like subreddits They feel contrived in a feed style client Perhaps this client already exists?
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