Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
@farcaster dev / dad / books, cooks, ski, code ~ there are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
i'm excited to see a fork of farcaster be attempted
there is no double spend problem social so "forking" isn't like in a blockchain where diverging state means incompatible worlds
(the core purpose of global consensus in farcaster is to allow for efficient real time sync between nodes)
you could have a simple "fork"...
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as an illustration of the problem: MM experimented with spending $$$ on getting people to post and build mini apps
the feedback from many high quality posters was this made the feed worse since it encouraged engagement bait vs more niche, longer form posts
the feedback from many high quality mini app devs is this fil...
"Why didn't you spend more of the money you raised?"
Spending money can help with sign ups, i.e. you can pay to get the users to download and go through onboarding.
What it doesn't solve is the most important thing -- retention.
If 3 out of every 10 users that signed up continued to use Farcaster after 30 days, we w
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in hindsight pretty cool that jesse and coinbase took such a big swing at TBA as a super app of decentralized protocols
obviously would’ve been nice if it was a run away success from the start but reality is bringing something like that into the world is incredibly difficult
props to jesse and the base team for their...
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when I was a kid I always wondered why the ski lifts blasted such lame dad rock
weirdly as soon as I became the target consumer demographic they switched to blasting awesome music I like—nice!
ive decided millenial nostalgia is back because things were so unapologetically what they were during our heyday
there was never any concern about bsb dropping a hip hop album or michael scott launching an NFT collection (he's exit liquidity anyways) - thigns were what they were and we loved them for it
with authenti
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