itsbasil on Farcaster

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increasingly more 10k fids & below are in my dms calling for me to get LOUDER it appears the inner circle is finally getting pissed off? two notable developments: 1) “get louder for us” — people are scared to speak up due to fear of retribution from ex-cb mafia (this is horrifying, no different than censorship & why we get called linkedin) 2) just talked to a second crypto & fc og who is now advising an fc competitor interested in tokenizing the social graph: one just wants to start a fire; the other is giving “fine i’ll do it myself” energy while i appreciate dans recent visibility on the timeline, we’ve debated this time & time again to no end & nothing has changed out of love for the network, the people want SOME of the 100m+ of capital being SAT ON deployed & deployed LOUDLY starting with ONE non dev hire to run ONE of these initiatives (to start): > eco fund > marketing & ua > branding & optics > grants & devrel > meaningful creator rewards & ambassador program

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don’t shoot the messenger; there shouldn’t even be a need for one if you think i give a shit about being right, that’s your own ego talking—i could care less i want what’s best for my friends who are building here & what’s best for the network as a whole

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ok on second pass “inner circle” was a weird choice of words & i’ll never use “giving” like that again everything else stands

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if that 100m of sidelined capital wants to help farcaster, why don't they get onchain and buy some coins

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ted (not lasso)

when has the Merkle team ever done acts of retribution? that’s seemingly unfounded, and I say this as someone who has been here from ~the start, likely met the most FCers IRL and URL to date, shared my disagreements publicly, and arguably have a lot to lose.

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lol this is the least offensive set of demands i've ever read

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pugson (Farcaster Professional)

supporting the message although i disagree with the claims

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> meaningful creator rewards & ambassador program they are deploying 5 figs a week (and increasing) into both of these exact things?

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likeliest outcome is cb buys merkle

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glad you’re speaking up babe. that most recent thread was a useful dialog serious q — do we think dan isn’t occupying those roles 24/7

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bruh what you just sound poor

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Who is tokenising the social graph?

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Just launch the token already

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Farcaster is the road. Projects are the cars. Farcaster wants to be the car.

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i feel like i missed something...or is this just general frustration? i know you've been pretty outspoken about what you think needs to change. who are the competitors? 👀 👀 need to be early :D

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Thank you for speaking up on this. Building projects is a waste of money without people to use them. I truly don’t understand why this isn’t a bigger priority

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I know a few sub 20k-ers who made alts out of frustration or straight up quit because of exactly this. Personally, I get the feeling that their view is that they're building for 10 years from now and what happens now won't matter when the world's social graph is decentralized thanks to the generosity of the Merkle gods. We are the impatient plebs who don't know better.

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the fact that they hire folks only in LA also slows things down a lot, yes they've been shipping quality updates but there's surely more to it than dev like you said

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@baseddesigner.eth

if clanker does 10x from here they could have a bigger fund than that and with no investors to pay off behind the back

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