dusan on Farcaster

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if all you care about here is the leaderboard, you're gonna have a bad time it's never been (only) about quality of words you put in your casts (the same sentence hits different from different people). it's all about (transitive) PoW — and that's a good thing fwiw that's why anoncasting, in its current form, is almost entirely uninteresting

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Even though I see a dissonance between the “cabal” and the rest, I notice that the difference seems to be disappearing. Probably it’s my concern about that difference that seems to be disappearing.

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can you say more?

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Well, i see that there are clear influencers on farcaster, right? People who can say two words, get 100s of views, sit on the leaderboard, make money via leaderboard rewards, airdrops, etc. So you feel like the game is rigged against you. However! It seems like more of those folks, “the cabal” if you will, do indeed interact with everyone, on the one hand. Which helps, if you are focused on the leaderboard, just because things are interesting right. On the other, as a little folk (we’re all our own version of little folk) spending more time just interacting with what you’re interested in (popular influenced or not) can satisfy interests, help you have a good old time, and see some rewards (monetary or otherwise) as well. So you see a lot of folks feeling better about being wherever they are on the leaderboard, earning some rewards, and more importantly, just having a good time on farcaster. Aka spend more time having fun, then the split between big and small dissipates.

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🎯 i read your first reply again and finally understood (and absolutely agree) the sooner you stop caring*, the better off you are *—doesn't mean it's useless to try and help to design better systems

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Indeed. It’s been interesting to look at the leaderboard week after week and see the difference in points versus what I talked about during the week. So I’d say I care less about the leaderboard, and maybe more about using the leaderboard to see where im most comfortable as far as what I’m chatting about on a daily basis. (It’s not lost on me though that I’ve done better on the leaderboard when I’m probably complaining about something though lol)

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haha yeah... i also noticed there are things i can cast about that will definitely drive more engagement than anything else i'd prefer to to cast about and i do it from time to time just to feel something 😂

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