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I'm not lying, I never said "more users" is my top request. 😀 (Not that I'm against more users.)
And there are a number of other developers who have been asking for other things (and my impression is some of them left the ecosystem when they realized they are not going to be prioritized/happen).
What I'm saying is that you listen to a specific type of developers. You reward a specific type of apps. And this creates a feedback loop where "the top dev request is more users".
Here's an other metric. Check the number of comments in FIP proposals. There are proposals with significant engagement that never got prioritized.
There's also a constant feeling (may be personal pov) that important decisions are made in backchannels. It may be convenient, or more efficient, I'm not judging, but there is no way to hold a discussion when one of the participants has the argument-to-end-all-discussions "this is what devs want".
I can go on, for example, how the app has been prioritized as a platform vs the protocol, or the wallet has been prioritized over the rest of the app.
But the bottom line is that imho, you have created the environment (technical, devs, etc) that reflects what you believe is the way forward, i.e. large distribution.
And all this is to explain why "this is what devs want" triggers me. 1 reply
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I’m probably one of those “average” users: small following, crypto user, splitting my time between Farcaster and X.
On X, I’ve always treated it like an information funnel. I spend time curating my following list just to keep things digestible. Even though I post a lot, it usually feels like talking into the void. That seems to be how big social platforms work — attention clusters around a small group of loud voices, and the rest of us end up mostly consuming rather than contributing.
I first tried Farcaster back in its early testing days, drifted away, and came back during the meme coin spring to chase Base alpha. This time I stayed, because the mini-apps and the trading/wallet experiences kept getting better. But if I’m honest, the feeling of invisibility hasn’t really changed here either. Maybe that’s just the default state of social networks: most of us are eyeballs, not voices. 1 reply
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