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@maxcapacity.eth

well i guess this is goodbye for now farcaster (formerly warpcast) i can't get any traction here i'm even more of a second-class crypto citizen here than i am on x (formerly twitter)

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Don’t leave just as it’s picking up! Have you been engaging with others on here? I’ve found it helps a lot to engage/comment on others casts in order to get traction and build up a following/engagement

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yeah that's the part that's not working! i'm just going to keep posting here and stop trying to engage with people. i can't afford the time to keep trying to be a reply guy

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Your engagement doesn't look bad overall tbh I think you should keep trying to engage with people but maybe a different subset of people The engagement is what makes the social fabric stronger rather than just being another account with a microphone on the timeline

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i've been working on that for a couple months and it's not working! all the engagement i get is from people who are already following me on other platforms and who also are trying (and failing) to get ahead on here all the top ranked people are friends with each other and it just seems like a big circle jerk where the elite users who don't need a boost are the only ones getting a boost i'm going back to just being another account with a microphone on the timeline. the only engagement i get on here is when i complain about farcaster. then all the people who it's working out for swoop in and tell me i'm wrong or i'm doing it wrong and don't even get me started on the lack of enthusiasm about art on here. i only started getting any engagement when i stopped posting art

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How does this compare to twitter for you?

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people are way friendlier here, which is the main attraction to me, but no one even looks at my art on here (not to mention farcaster won't let me upload any of my GIF art) i've been on twitter for 17 years so i managed to build up a following slowly, and now i'm basically chained to it. and all the engagement i get on here is from people i know on twitter who are just here because the vibes aren't shitty like on crypto twitter

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Just because people don’t engage with your art doesn’t mean that there’s no engagement on here It’s relative. Twitter has a much much larger user base so there’s inevitably more people interested in art there I think the art community here is relatively small but I always appreciate art more when there’s storytelling alongside it like @drivenbyboredom does

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@maxcapacity.eth

there's very little engagement for art on here, beyond a few favorites of the community. i know because most of the people i follow are artists and i see how little engagement they get. including artists who are extremely valued for sharing their art on other platforms

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you're in the top 10 ranking, you're making like $300 a month, of course you're going to defend it. i'm trying to get an IRL job that only pays $400 a month because i can't pay rent with my art, i think you may have a skewed perspective

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i’m trying to help and yes i have a different perspective that’s influenced by my experience but i’ve been here consistently for nearly 2 years I can see where you’re coming from and i’m genuinely trying to see more of your perspective with that said, i just don’t think there’s a large audience here for art yet so that’s the reality today artists trying to make a living off their art have a hard time no matter what. it’s a grind and it’s constant experimentation on how to find an audience. that’s true here just like it is anywhere else.

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the lack of audience here for art is the biggest reason i can't afford to spend time building up an audience. that's how i make a living, selling art. i was hoping i could "just engage" with people and that would help, but it doesn't help. i already have to be on twitter, instagram, discord, telegram, bluesky, linkedin, etc. spending 2-4 hours a day "engaging" people to try to drive "engagement" to my own posts on farcaster, when there's no audience for art, is just not reasonable

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i've been on here for a decent amount of time too, my FID is 16826. no not as early as you but pretty early. i liked it a lot until the DEGEN thing happened and ruined the vibe. then that ended and the vibe got better but it's still just a bunch of elite users getting all the attention/rewards while the rest of us second class citizens just joke about trying to work hard to make $5 instead of $3

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Do you think the ROI here is better than those other platforms?

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