sometimes i get restless about farcaster’s pace, then i open x, bluesky, or reddit & remember: fc is still the least toxic room on the public forum

everything we grumble about here—hyper-financialization, ai sludge, echo-chamber groupthink—exists everywhere else at 10× scale

that’s not a farcaster flaw; it’s the web in 2025… open forums can’t sustain real signal

bots, yield-seekers, and low-effort content overwhelm niche expertise… as the dead-internet materializes, real conversation will retreat behind walls

the winning pattern is small, curated networks: 15-person group chats, 150-member private servers—numbers that track with dunbar’s limits on trust—these groups have almost exclusively pushed the world forward these last 20 years…

nations, firms & creators that control their own walled gardens capture both mind-share & margin…

geopolitically, socially, philosophically… the future is not “open” despite what the technocrats tell you

it’s closed

seems likely that "the farcaster feed" will soon give way to other primitives as the dominant channel (no pun intended) on the network

app developer /spotlight | MediaFi & Attention Markets

i could be wrong ofc

not news to you but i do think there are some open questions on how to serve a generalized content feed on a hyper-financialized network