Consumer Crypto

The fundamental issue with consumer crypto today is lack of consumers. 

Consumers need interesting or entertaining content to stick around.

Sign ups are irrelevant if you can’t retain them.

Everything else is a marginal improvement at best.

my guy really said “boring casters qq more”

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Dan: We need more content.

Also Dan: if you cast "too" much you will be labelled spam forever

Us: Define "too much"

Dan: No.

you're hanging out in a bustling party in the metaverse

your friends are here and you speak to them freely

you're all goofing around, someone say's something silly, you make a fart sound in response, everyone laughs

there are also complete strangers here you know you can approach but you also know you'll need some tact

if you make a fart sound and they don't laugh that's not good

if you keep trying to talk to them and they don't respond it'd be rude to continually persist

if you try to approach every single person at the party and give them the same compliment you won't be invited back

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@farcaster dev / dad / books, cooks, ski, code ~ there are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Fair. However, those are spoken/unspoken rules of social engagement that people learn over a lifetime of trail and error, mimicing, and explicit instructions.

I literally had to tell my five year-old at a party to not lick his friend. 

The vibe around here this week is that no one understands where the line is because the line between organically growing your account and reaching out to new people and being "spammy" is quite thin. 

I get the kind of explicit spammy behavior that they are trying to target, but at the moment the vibe is that people are wary to post or engage at all for fear of a shadow ban because they had "too long" of a conversation or said hello to 7 new people, when the correct number was 6.

Yea totally get that

Fwiw - longevity trumps everything in Farcaster land

It’s the strongest proof of work in the ecosystem. 

Even if you’re shadowdanned for a while, just vibing with people for its own sake will bring it back to normal bc dan will see that you’re not here for free reach. 

You’re just here.

Yeah that's fair.

I just now a lot of people at my level (5-20k) are genuinely nervous to post at all. 

I cast a lot, yes. But because I genuinely enjoy this app and the crowd on it. Most of my casts are replies to replies to replies in conversations like this.

I've put a lot of time into this app to get the "farcaster street cred" that I need to be considered a legitimate actor in this space.

It is worrying to think all of that hardwork can be undone because I recasted 7 posts, instead of 6 and I'm not allowed to know what that magic number is...

tbh I think most of what Dan says is CYA energy when he was gonna operate a specific way that basically involves waiting for the current wave illusion of free money runs out and activity reverts back to the mean