Dan Romero on Farcaster

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"If you offer X, Y, Z features, you'll be able to convince people frustrated with [insert social platform] to move to Farcaster." 1. In most cases on the internet, audience and community are downstream of the platform they are formed on. There are exceptions. 2. Migration is an individual act. Individuals try new things and successfully migrate. Very few communities successfully migrate. Usually, they fracture or fade. 3. Path dependency is real! Just because another network used a tactic at a point in time doesn't mean it's universal. In fact, most of the time it's not replicable since it was successful in capturing a given cohort that there's no one left to target like that. 4. Most consumers are creatures of habit. They get used to a set of tools, networks, experiences and they stick to them, even if stuff gets way worse. 5. Finally, and most importantly, do not underestimate the power of network effects. Companies that have them are valuable for that reason.

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2 is so important. I’ve been begging friends to leave behind meta products for almost a decade but they are addicted even knowing how toxic, bad for privacy, data collecting shenanigans, etc. Lizard brain won’t let go. They need a catalyst to move and that seems to be a very personal decision.

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Who do you talk to when thinking about consumer products? Or struggling with certain concepts?

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"creatures of habit" is a stubborn truth

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Convincing people frustrated to move to farcaster is a dead end IMO. Any at scale consumer platform either needs word of mouth or network effects. Or can just go home.

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re 4-simply the concept of “status quo bias” explains how people prefer things to stay the same by default. Familiarity often trumps innovation in practice.

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There are periods of "vulnerability" (or openness, depending on how you see it), when people form new relationships and habits. During these periods people are more open to try and switch to a new network. This is why college students are an important target for social networks, and this is why change is often generational. And there's also the case of a new paradigm: Instagram was "express yourself with photos", in a mostly text-dominated environment, addressed to a generation that was growing up with digital cameras, and was more proficient in image than text.

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4 is so true, i still open up facebook and instagram, doom scroll, even if deep down i know they get my data and sell it to third parties.

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So many big words.

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all of this is why interoperability is important

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people always say that they love change, but deep down they hate it with a vengeance. i personally think that the work the team is doing on enhancing and removing roadblocks in the onboarding experience will help, in addition to word of mouth (especially now that we don't have to explain the warpcast -> farcaster thing)

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What I found on Farcaster, I didn’t find it on any other platform. FC is hands down my No1. About people: IMO the new product is feelings and people will go where they can find some kind of feeling (feeling is the new dope ). Most people are chasing attention, that’s why they follow trends.

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thank you so many parallels to building a chain ecosystem tbh but yes please keep killing it and focus on what you guys think will make the fc community stronger and keep folks who do expand over here for whatever reason

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just convince them the monetization capability on Farcaster . fully focus on that !🔥💰

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Results of most recent onboarding attempt.

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Happy Friday! In my opinion, both people and the World in general are constantly changing. Therefore, the success stories of the past can help to better plan a recruitment strategy in the future, but it doesn't assure you 100% that it will be the right one. It's very important to have a strong community, but this can only be achieved by demonstrating that the platform has a unique plus that no other company has, and that makes people want to use your product above the rest. A copy of another product will not generate any interest in that product if it can already be used in the other one.

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Speaking about getting people to Farcaster, there's a type of aggressive marketing that'll work, and it's going to be both billboards and videos. Real people will talk about the platform in a very relatable way that'll entice users of other platforms. Right now, Farcater has all the features that'll get people excited, they just need to know about Farcaster

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#5 is all that matters. Build your feature set around that

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Let’s take a step back and look at how many "alternatives" in tech do coexist — even if one dominates. Windows vs. Linux, iOS vs. Android, Termius vs. MobaXterm… all of them found their niches, communities, and users — not by trying to "migrate" the whole crowd, but by offering something specific that resonated with certain individuals.

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