remember when that ICE agent showed a kid with leukemia his gun and the kid pissed himself and they made him sit in his piss while they arrested his mom?

I remember.

Fuck the Feds.

And gm 🌞

Artist, musician, developer, Rogue Pedicab.
/cryptoart /muse /mxjxn Next to impossible to make viral 
$mxjxn 
linktr.ee/mxjxn Crypto since 2014.

Likewise. Struggling with the “why” of it all though. Like, what does Farcaster actually /stand for/ besides the enrichment of men like @pmarca?

Well, i think it stands for the enrichment of its users. User owned social media. Sure merkle owns the protocol but look at degen and you vs them. We need to figure out how to replicate that (not the process, but the outcome).

Onchain startups. Farcaster app store (@farstore) and tips (@tipn)

Without straining my metaphor too badly, yeah I do. Not technologically; ideologically and ethically. And I think we’ll see the cracks clearly when farcaster (merkle) has to actually defend freedom of speech. The interior of Farcaster is antifragile. Farcaster, the product, is vulnerable to pressure from its financiers and government liaisons.

If they don’t stand for anything, don’t expect them to rise to any challenge besides better market fit.

I dont think the foundation is broken— do you?

It can’t be forcibly replicated. Success in this context isn’t chemistry. It’s chaos and the best we can do is create the right conditions for another storm. Direct intention won’t produce the right steps. It needs to be a fortuitous accident.

Besides, another successful shitcoin won’t fix the culture here. Money can flood but it won’t fix the foundation.