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Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
Farcaster maintaining a steadfast commitment to free speech is vital to its continued growth. There's a real degree of civility here. The easy explanation for that is that the community is still small, so people are polite in the same way Iceland is civil or a countryclub is a civil. But I suspect there's another dimension to it: there's money on the line here, and acting rude is a bad way to get people to want to give you any. Hopefully that insulates this place against needing to crack down on the kind of bigotry or harmful posting you see on other platforms. But either way, let Substack be the model for /farcaster. Better to allow some vile posting and let the social marketplace sort it out than step into the quagmire of censorship according to shifting social norms.
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
It's a good theory, but have you spent any time on CT? Toxic af and money gets thrown around like nothing else I suspect it's different when the money is smaller and coupled with value + relationships
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frederick
@sgniwder
it’s small here, but people have real relationships here too. I think this lends to the civility. Twitter is too toxic for me to spend large amounts of time there. I’d rather have discussions
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
Hard agree. Upvotes/downvotes on Reddit were perhaps the first-pass iteration of the 'social feedback loop' being built here, but the problem with Reddit is that karma is non-transferrable & worth $0, so Reddit still devolved into ragebait / hivemind / circlejerk social dynamics. https://farcaster.xyz/dfern.eth/0x4e60179e That being said, FC hasn't been stress tested with the full gamut of human depravity (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities), but I am confident that we have the tools in the toolbag here to shift the costs of depravation onto the depravators rather than trying to play Web2 Trust(MeBro) & Safety moderation whack-a-mole for the millionth time over again.
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The Boy Builder ™
@heisboydrey
Just joined and i think i farcaster is just the place for me.I love it here and i love the freedom of speech.
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DepressiveHacks
@depressivehacks
This is a big part of why I really like it here.
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Jason
@jachian
Some side of me believes there’s a timeline where the major social providers have their Armageddon moment and the “sufficiently decentralized” narrative is what onboards the masses in one fell swoop
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inchigor
@inchigor.eth
Free speech, but with onchain accountability - that’s the real web3 twist.
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abdulla
@abdullaalkamil
I think the smaller size and community feel are a big component but isn't clear how well this will scale. I think one thing I haven't really seen much on farcaster is people disagreeing with each other. I'm not sure if views are relatively homogenous so there hasn't really been an opportunity for things to get heated
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De Boy
@deboy
There's also not much spamming here like you'll see in other platforms.
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@BestCryptoTwits
@bestcryptotwits
We have had enough of the censorship!
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