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random observations: have noticed for a year+ that the behaviors / trends / content that do the best here track closest to early Facebook than to any other current platform (X, TikTok, Insta).

why?

i think there's an exhaustion with performative social and instead people crave low-stakes, casual spaces where they can share random thoughts and just connect. 

farcaster offers that to a lot of users today; the most common pieces of feedback:

- from the older generation, "it reminds me of the early internet"

- from the younger generation, "its for posting whatever is on my mind, which can be harder to do on other platforms. magic internet friends."

for the millennials, it offers a brand new network. they're not posting to friends or colleagues; they're posting to their followers most of whom they've never met before.

for college students, they never had a public digital space like Facebook. they only had instagram (performative feed) or snapchat (private messaging).

the other similarity with Facebook is that it had Facebook Platform: set of tools / product for third-party devs to create their own apps that could access data in Facebook (gifts, marketplace, events, video, games; honestly worth studying the history of Facebook Platform).

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I think a focus on video will likely change this

Video feels more like media. It’s broadcasting rather than socializing

Not a bad thing, just an observation

Maybe better feed filters could help this where there’s a media feed and a social (text only) feed

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Yeat the follow graph will inevitably get skewed with more broadcasters than socializers 

This seems to happen inevitably as a social network scales but video/media seems to hasten it (LinkedIn vs Tiktok)

Interesting what will happen to the follow graph though

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true but that’s not how video seems to be developing on Farcaster (or CBW for that matter)

lots of video happens on insta stories too, which is more designed for connection vs. performance