Dan Romero on Farcaster

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basil (propagation arc)

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

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in a world of slop, humans will seek real intimacy & human connection… for farcaster to lead this shift it must double-down on channels to me, this looks something like: - poach tightly-knit expert communities (a few thousand people each) and their followership will cascade in - equip moderators with robust tooling & a new rewards tier—curating is a full-time job (community should build this tbh & it’s currently the biggest hurdle) - treat “closed but discoverable” spaces as a core product, not a feature add-on we now have the integrations to incentivize proper community formation… as large-scale social drifts toward trump–musk spectacles & promo bots, we have to engineer smaller rooms & pay the people who keep them healthy if we want genuine connection & high-signal discourse

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> poach tightly-knit expert communities (a few thousand people each) and their followership will cascade in This sounds simple but it's basically impossible. Very few internet communities successfully move. Instead they just fracture / die out.

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yeeeeeeah, i know :/

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does the strategy then shift toward the native creation of new communities on the platform?

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I've been trying to move the /hodlhq core here since I joined... most came sooner or later, but didn't stay. But it seems wallet update + Monad/Hyperliquid integration have been the biggest draws so far, even more than the free money (bonus)

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