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random observations: have noticed for a year+ that the behaviors / trends / content that do the best here track closest to early Facebook than to any other current platform (X, TikTok, Insta).

why?

i think there's an exhaustion with performative social and instead people crave low-stakes, casual spaces where they can share random thoughts and just connect. 

farcaster offers that to a lot of users today; the most common pieces of feedback:

- from the older generation, "it reminds me of the early internet"

- from the younger generation, "its for posting whatever is on my mind, which can be harder to do on other platforms. magic internet friends."

for the millennials, it offers a brand new network. they're not posting to friends or colleagues; they're posting to their followers most of whom they've never met before.

for college students, they never had a public digital space like Facebook. they only had instagram (performative feed) or snapchat (private messaging).

the other similarity with Facebook is that it had Facebook Platform: set of tools / product for third-party devs to create their own apps that could access data in Facebook (gifts, marketplace, events, video, games; honestly worth studying the history of Facebook Platform).

Great take

X has an unimpeachable moat around famous & powerful people. Bluesky is barely able to hang on this front, and it's mostly partisans who wanted to hedge (failing strategy)

If we can't win the global town square performers, why not double down on community -- appeal to the 99% that have no voice on X

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree

You target an individual — a trailblazer / pioneer who then evangelizes to the subgroup 

Point is not to wholesale go after a subgroup, that’s where you get incongruities like Bluesky if you succeed in the short term (I agree with you, groups don’t resettle easily unless there’s serious threat)

> More specifically, finding subgroups that evangelize to folks within their respective networks

I don't think subgroups move. Individuals move. But then they don't have a reason to stick.

Wom via their friends. Basically the q that you have been asking people: “if you like it here, what’s stopping you from getting your friends here?”

More specifically, finding subgroups that evangelize to folks within their respective networks — whatever the equivalent of colleges for Facebook is these days. Maybe network states, or censored groups at the edges? Eg. 2A, regenerative ag, etc? Challenge is how to sequence gtm so that they “stack”. The chains like solana did not work well because crypto has tremendous narcissism of petty differences and doesn’t stack / compose well with other subgroups

I also think regardless of gtm, bringing the app up to snuff from a community social standpoint: cleaning up threading on replies was a great example of something that was well overdue and dramatically improves the conversational experience

Video another good example — gives us feature parity for normal social apps (text based comms tends to be more polarizing or high brow, neither of which screams community)

Many other things here that could better enhance the ability of communities to coordinate, especially economically — crowdfund is a great example of this. The seed club app is very popular, and that’s a big tell

/new-york 🗽 • /untzuntz 😈 • /tastebuds 🍕 Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮

I know a lot of people on X who talk about house music yet they don't have a place online to "hang out", they just rely on the algo there to find each other which kinda sucks (and is hit or miss)

2 years of channels and they have yet to drive growth.

Selling communities on a new tool doesn't work in practice. Even harder when the tool is bundled with a social network. Communities are downstream of the platform.

*whispers* channels

Go after various niche communities that don't have a proper home on platforms like X, IG, etc.

I agree with @dwr.eth that it's hard to wholesale import communities -- real communities don't work that way unless they're coerced or refugees

You have to appeal to a few open-minded members with clout who then advocate internally for a change

bringing in a community together. they stick around for each other

Wouldn’t we just replace them with new powerful people in the new medium?