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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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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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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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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6. People don’t switch platforms for features they switch for feelings. A sense of belonging, status, novelty, or escape drives behavior more than a cleaner UI or another toggle. If you’re only pitching utility, you’re missing the real lever: identity.

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I agree with you @dwr.eth, I had been stuck on X for a while now but a friend told me about fc and showed me benefits to be gained and I just knew it in me that a change had come.

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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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the biggest driver of new users is real-time monetization.

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I think 4 is especially relevant. People are mostly creatures of habit. There is extreme inertia in getting them to do something that is even slightly different from what they are used to even if it may be better. From their standpoint the cognitive load of learning a new way to do things is huge compared to doing something they already know. This creates a dilemma in the sense that if you just give them what they already have then there is no reason to change. If you give them something too different even if it is immensely better the “pain” of switching may be too great for many to do it. Combine that with the fact that it is very likely most new competitors to established platforms will fail (and so the time invested may be lost anyway) and you have a very difficult situation to overcome.

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let's just do a massive DDOS on X and everyone will come here 😆

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