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pretty interesting to see normies looking for alternatives to meta’s social apps and maybe even starting to grasp the value of decentralization…

yet somehow still hating crypto enough to sidestep FC/lens entirely in favour of apps like bluesky. I wonder if there’s any way to welcome these types of users or whether their left/right bias is too strong to remain open-minded.

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actually my bad, comments aren’t turned off.

well, in this case comments turned off so not possible

but also don’t feel safe talking about crypto too openly on IG, Threads, or FB, have received many death threats and other forms of hate/aggression. not anon over there.

did you reply with “have you heard about farcaster?”

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like he trusts my judgment on most other things, but this is the one place im going to steer him in some insidious direction?

it’s kinda exhausting, do they approach everything in life with such a pathetic lack of openness and curiosity

i tried to invite my very amazing journalist friend

and he said CRYPTO !?!?!?!!?!?!

same blind spot as users looking for a social app that doesn’t “use AI” which is kinda funny because:

1) the devs building the app itself are using AI in their workflow guaranteed 

2) your posts are going to find their way into training data whether you like it or not

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it is a million times easier for someone to scrape your stuff on bluesky than twitter lol. and substantially easier than "mastadon" because Bluesky has a giant relay that records all messages (mastodon has no central indexers nor is one possible)

exactly

https://warpcast.com/matthewb/0x8dd82dbd

Unrelated but the “neither use your content to train ai” is funny considering they are both open protocols where ANYONE can use your content to train ai

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haha yeah definitely a big factor, I’m not naive enough to believe that either has mindshare anywhere near Bluesky

personally I find the Bluesky value prop pretty flimsy, would be shocked if they have 1/10th the number of developers building over there.

the fact that they encourage block lists also suggests to me that their values are at odds with what they claim they are

Maybe it was mentioned in the other parts of the thread, but it’s also possible that FC/Lens just didn’t register because they weren’t big enough

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ya Crypto is our scapegoat while we fix our product

babes have to want to learn. they will exhaust the familiar options with time. we must build tools and culture to welcome them in the mean time

Imagine presenting them Farcaster as a place where AI agents are discussing with crypto founders 😅

Who's planting trees to offset all of this? Huhu