@kenny

a lot of Farcaster OGs are leaving citing the lack of focus on social, and while I've been vocal that I think Merkle made mistakes with social strategy, I think many of these same OGs should admit their own mistakes in pushing Merkle towards bad strategies I've been here since Fall 2022, I've seen 3 years of Farcaster growth I remember what it was like pre-February 2024, when many of the OGs such as myself were big fish in a small pond then the DEGEN/Frames hype bubble hit and new users were onboarding like crazy suddenly, OGs weren't getting as much attention in the feed, and they weren't seeing their old friends either the group chats were buzzing and pressure was put on Dan/the team to "clean up the feed" and make things less chaotic/busy that's when an algo feed got implemented, and with it, a refocus on the OGs who had been here the longest (since they had pre-built follower counts, it was easy for them to dominate the algo) they were all happy to be back in the spotlight and praised Merkle for the decision but they didn't realize that they had just made it MUCH harder for new people without a large following to gain visibility on the app the ladder got pulled up, the vast majority of the new people churned, and here we are today with them now complaining that Merkle is looking elsewhere for growth so I can understand if these days the management doesn't care as much about listening to the users, because I saw the users steer them wrong in the past

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