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It’s not @adrienne I swear
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@adrienne
...or is it? also lol
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@kmacb.eth
I’ve been sitting on this for a few days thinking it might come off too sharp but your hesitation after the DWR interview, when @nounishprof asked what you thought of the new FC positioning, said more than a full answer ever could.
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fwiw I interpreted this as farcaster being an alternative to the casino. but are you saying farcaster is turning into a casino? @polluterofminds has thoughts too!
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Yeah, fair read. I don’t think it’s becoming a casino so much as borrowing the mechanics. High-frequency dopamine loops. Leaderboards. Prizes. I can see it as a substitute for a casino, but calling it an alternative is a bridge too far. Even the “do betr” leaderboard topping app is a spinner just add ball and it’s roulette. (Love $BETR, btw.) The metaphor’s probably wrong for where the network is now. It’s not Vegas, it’s an ad platform. Feels like driving north on 101 into San Francisco, except the billboards reach out and tap your shoulder saying look at me. I kinda like the new positioning, but it doesn’t feel like a winning move; more like a don’t lose move. Come for the trading, stay for the network. Never gonna scale. Jmac don’t trade eg. If this really wants to be an alternative, it has to offer something different eg community instead of chance, ownership instead of odds. NEW content types using ai is a green field. That’s what worries me, not the fun, but the foundation it’s being built on ie a network that rewards activity over meaning.
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> NEW content types using ai is a green field. It's 2025, not 2010. Unfortunately, any successful new content type will be adopted by incumbents. What matter is how much existing distribution you have.
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Having a content type adopted by incumbents is exactly what we want. That means it worked. We shifted the surface. Imagine something like ‘Ownership Journeys’ created on Farcaster with on & off-chain legos snapped together but remixable anywhere by any multimodal model. Each one carries a payment wrapper that automatically settles to everyone attributed via Snapchain across creation & distribution. Network token. When that gets copied by incumbents, the content spreads but the economics stay home. Status accrues to influencers & creators. That’s a different game not to own distribution but to own settlement & allocation. If the tokenomics get it right (may take a few swings) the community grows & stays. Feels like we are closer each quarter to a post distribution world. Keep going!
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