I think the biggest vibe shift people are picking up on is that merkle focusing on video is a rare* shift away from making farcaster better for the people who are already here vs. trying to attract new people who are not.

They aren’t focusing on video because we asked them to, it’s because our so called friends who we wont invite here are watching video on other platforms. 

It’s like if your boyfriend asks what your hottest friends favorite food is , and then starts making it is every night with the hope she’ll stop by. 

The text lovers who have been here daily for years may be feeling a sense of loss, or small lack of appreciation 

But its good to remember that unless farcaster scales multiple orders of magnitude , it will someday shut down and we’ll call it a good science experiment , fun while it lasted 

Dan and V are talented founders, and they have tons of good traits, maybe best of all is a relentless determination to keep trying new things, day after day, and literally year after year.

They’ve earned enough of my trust by showing up, being transparent, and keeping their word, that I will never not let them cook or run new experiments

If farcaster as a protocol is successful, we can always go build a text based app that has all the vibes of the old days. But you know what? We’ll have grown as people and we’ll be different by then, and we wont want to go back. 

Change is the only constant.

Choo choo lets fuck around and find out. 




* the infamous “not enough interesting content” was the earlier comment that people hated bc we took it personally lol

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the lesson is some of the people already complained about how badly videos were handled by the app a while ago and were told it wasn’t the focus and to basically piss off

and now it’s a focus but for the entirely wrong reasons 🥹

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say more sailor. we’re inclined to agree with the necessity of vertical video support tbh