Mews (glbkst)

Mews

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There is more than one thing here: 1) as-is fc app are build around tokens, pay2win mostly i'd say. Most can't win by design, though. How many still like this apps? Unknown as-is base seems to aim for apps about trading tokens. They said this. Maybe more users are interested in that today. And Coinbase is an exchange mostly. So more or less a revert to a wallet with an in-app browser. The wallet is the center. 2) Regarding app model it's web standards vs. "closed world". A tiny bit like iOS Apps vs. standard web apps. This only works for anyone if there is some userbase. fc is small, though. 3) I don't know if others see potential for fc and i tried to understand it the last weeks. But don't see it. Something rather obvious i think: Given what fc founders wrote publicly, is running the fc servers a loss, so not sustainable? I don't know, but will it exist in 1 year if not? 4) Why not simply using X or bluesky? Both have much more users probably.

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after thinking a 2nd time about the base announcement regarding apps in the base app, i think that the fc mini app probably have no future. Longer term. The fc wallet as well. Both are too 'custom' and very unlikely to reach many users. I'm not aware of any real user numbers for mini apps today, but guess it's rather low. Which doesn't mean, that the base app might have more, but i understand the announcement in a way that they go back to the previous model of in-app browser + wallet. And have some extensions like a notification service which is described in the announcment. Obviously this will be mostly base-only. But the coinbase wallet was or is one of the most used wallet app i think. No one will install the fc app to have a wallet i'd say. If the social media aspect doesn't work well, because well it's a bit specialized, it still is the main feature of fc. But the a bit specialized, that is blockchain related, is probably the only strength which fc currently has?

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one main conversation on fc seems to be still fc itself, at least i think this is why these posts are on my TL. This was and is a strong indicator that there isn't much interesting posting or no postings apart from (AI) slop. It never was a free2use app, therefore the main question is: why should a new user install it? Most people are obviously ok with ads, but not ok with a fee or sub.

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@glbkst the rly important question was always, if content on fc is more interesting than other apps. It can't be for everyone, but probably for some?

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@glbkst i used the farcaster app regularly the last 2 weeks ( or a bit longer ), to get an impression mainly if there are some non bot users around. What apps exist etc. I think there are real users. I also tried out the base app, neccessarily with a new account, because there is a difference due to account abstraction with a new account. The base app seems to have a lot more bugs, though. Some mini apps don't work at all or partly don't work. But there seem als mini apps in the base app list which aren't available in the farcaster client. I have seen gas fees sponsored by base in the base app, one of the features account abstraction allows. The differences or let's call it incompatibilties between fc clients can't be a good thing, though. An obvious question might be if base sees a future in fc, i mean they could have aquired it, too? Currently the base app feels less mature than the previous wallet app, which i thought to be pretty good in comparison.

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