Farcaster

i give farcaster a hard time because i'm dissatisfied with the status quo of online social and feel like we have a genuine opportunity to do things differently

this is why it frustrates me when farcaster leans into the same things that make traditional online social shitty

thinking about it more i realized i don't actually know what farcaster is trying to achieve.

does it want to solve fair distribution for creators?
does it want to solve deplatforming and censorship?
does it want to be a mini app platform?
does it want to be a place where people make genuine connections?
does it want to be a place people go for entertainment?
does it want to be a composable social graph?
does it want to be an app for people to discover crypto apps?

i genuinely have no idea. this vacuum of direction invites people to shape their own narratives about farcaster and leads to everyone being disappointed when decisions are made that don't align with their idea of what it should be

Being “sufficiently decentralized” doesn’t mean anything at best and means decentralization LARPing at worst

A $100B company with millions of users permissionlessly adopting your protocol front and center in a flagship app is not larping, lol