Farcaster

- to establish itself, fc needs lots of users
- as a dau, you are unusual. lots of users are not like you
- merkle is optimizing to attract and retain lots of users who are not like you

once you internalize this, a lot of the conflict and confusion around merkle's strategy will resolve itself

campfire 🫴🪵🔥

soldier of Good. 🪖🥰 
producer × DJ. 🎧🪩 
working on /campfire. 🫴🪵🔥
host of /dww 🎧 +  /gtd 🛠️.
https://linktr.ee/0xdownshift

they're attempting to serve a different target market; we want the geeks, they want the mops.

their financial incentive is to grow DAU asap, so they are directly encouraging scummy, bottom-of-the-barrel, engagement-maxxing content. i understand why, but i don't like it.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

fuck the geeks! we want the mops.. so we can speedrun to the sociopaths

fuck the geeks! we want the mops.. so we can speedrun to the sociopaths

https://farcaster.xyz/downshift.eth/0x000b23a0

soldier of Good. 🪖🥰 
producer × DJ. 🎧🪩 
working on /campfire. 🫴🪵🔥
host of /downshift ⚙️ + /dww 🎧 +  /gtd 🛠️.
https://linktr.ee/0xdownshift

i first read that post over a decade ago and i still don't have a solution

not a solution, but an outcome; i wonder if @vgr has anything new to add

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

not a solution, but an outcome; i wonder if @vgr has anything new to add

https://www.ystrickler.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet/

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/04/16/the-dark-forest-anthology-of-the-internet/