dwr on Farcaster

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POV: there is no influx of people waiting to join Farcaster once it goes permissionless other than airdrop farmers. 1. We use Ethereum, so anyone anti-crypto is won’t be convinced in the near term 2. Existing apps are too similar to Twitter, with way less content New types of apps / behaviors for growth.

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Corbin Page pfp

I’d focus on Ethereum builders. The more of them you onboard, some % convert to building on top and attracting consumers with various use cases. Can sweeten the deal with grants/protocol upside for apps that’s grow protocol DAUs.

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Kartik Agaram pfp

Minor quibble: <moleman>I'm anti-crypto.</moleman> But I try to keep an open-ish mind.

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Andrei O. pfp

There was a point when Lens was more decentralized than Faracster, but now that has reversed. Hubs was a good choice because IMO without its own network that can be optimized a web3 social network can't scale. Lens has become more and more centralized. Wrote some scattered thoughts on this last year https://t.ly/XhBU-

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Samo pfp

@dwr I see bsky is prioritizing crypto/nft project founders for onboarding atm…

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Ryan Anderson pfp

I think this is probably accurate. Lens started with a stronger brand and developed demand earlier. Farcaster is better, but less differentiated and doesn't have as compelling a story or brand. Both of those things are easily fixed.

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https://warpcast.com/tayyab/0x259417

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what can ppl get/do here that they can’t anywhere else?

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Warren pfp

There’s supposed to be an airdrop for this platform?

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Cameron Armstrong

Any thoughts on a way for the Merkle team to showcase FC native apps without explicitly endorsing? There’s a bit of a cold start problem on breaking very far away from existing mental models for apps and some sort of bootstrapping of attention could help more builders try moonshots w/o the a16z Mandate of Heaven

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billzh pfp

Staying invite gated until 1M users doesn't sound too crazy, no?

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Tayyab - d/acc pfp

Ideally user doesn’t know FC is underneath. Mostly useful for devs to know and care. But how do you teach someone the portability of their social data when Twitter/instagram walled gardens is what they are used to?

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We need some FarmVille-like web3 games built on top of FC. Getting access to 10k+ crypto power users, sharing scoreboards in the feed, trending NFTs tab - seems like a good deal for game designers.

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Fran pfp

The main thing is snowballing content. You need people who produce content on farcaster and no where else. A few rock star content creators and people will check in occasionally just to see. The hurdle to check farcaster is not that high. But coming in and not seeing new content kills momentum to check in to the app.

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Leo pfp

I don't think point 1 is relevant. Anticrypto users don't even need to know this uses crypto

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Bård Ionson pfp

Could I make a service or not that would send people a NFT if they reply to a cast or send a payment to a smart contract. Not sure how to manage the gas transaction fee.

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Fran pfp

unrelated to the topic. But should give some thought as to how to structure and present complex conversation threads. There are multiple conversation threads here and its interesting to see differences in presentation between wc and jam. Neither has cracked the right organization for this imo. Hard to follow

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vincent pfp

Example of "new kind of app": Stealcam. App enabled by Eth. Should be something that fun, but FC-native.

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Jason Goldberg pfp

I wrote some thoughts on this https://jam.so/jjcJMh

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