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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Farcaster reflection: The platform has organic norms of civility whereas Twitter for some reason has become a jungle full of wild apes. But it’s not an oppressive civility of the style of BlueSky.
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@lawrenceroman
Twitter reminds me of how MySpace was once overrun by indie music producers pushing their mp3s, the spam of the times; which eventually drove people to give Facebook, a cleaner platform at the time, a chance. This time around, Twitter is being flooded by bots and a low-quality crowd emboldened by racism and a lack of civility; and the crowd is not particularly smart. Remember the core of early facebook were Ivy League students; now in Facebook u see more ads and post from random people than your own friends. In contrast, Farcaster seems to attract a more educated, tech-oriented builders focused on building, which helps maintain a higher standard of conversation. As for Bluesky, I haven’t spent much time there because I haven’t seen a clear differentiator from twitter. So I’m curious: what do you mean by “oppressive civility”? I actually posted on Bluesky today trying to poach a Turkish LSE associate human rights professor friend to try Farcaster. Just my 2 cents via noice! 😂😎
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Biggydaddy.eth
@biggydaddy
Farcaster feels like a dinner party with smart, curious people. Twitter’s more like an alleyway brawl at 2am with takes flying like bottles.
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Abang Brooch Art 🎩🎨👑
@abangbrooch
Twidder? what's that? 🤔
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gFam.live (UrbanGladiator)
@gfam
I personally don't see the oppressive civility of Bluesky... I see absolutely terrible takes over there all the time. The difference might be that people take the time to push back, whereas on Twitter it'll be impossible to push back against all the trolling. Twitter rewards conflict with engagement boosts, I don't think Bluesky or Farcaster do that.
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depatchedmode
@depatchedmode
Bluesky seems less weird now, but takes more Twitter-like work to achieve a less pure signal than Twitter (used to) provide. Farcaster feels like it’s scaling towards something altogether different. Or will die trying. In the end, I think FC and BS converge on similar outcomes.
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@gryphon
Exactly! It's almost like all the decent people decided to come here
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Chainleft
@chainleft
Oppressive civility branding to Bluesky is assigned to it by those who never used Bluesky.
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Zero
@bezero
Personally, i think its just a product of having a small number of users. If / when it gets to 50mill you will see the same stuff
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Ivy
@ivy
organic norms are always the best ones
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Koolkheart
@koolkheart.eth
I’ve seen more thoughtful disagreement on here in a week than I’ve seen on Twitter in a year. Like people actually read before replying
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Jordan Charters
@jkcharters
I think we all seek to genuinely connect and form relationships here. So that does make quite the difference 😁
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Garrett
@garrett
@ferran thoughts?
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@huugo.eth
is that just a reflection of size though?
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Lance
@ljsk
I wonder what makes a social apps culture the way it is
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torii.base.eth
@torii-stories
have you seen diverse community outside of political? I keep forgetting about Bluesky—that and my audience there seems to be only political (understandably as many leaving txitter often were/are)
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@karira
Farcaster's natural and friendly atmosphere, based on mutual respect among users, proved to be more comfortable and viable for communication than the unpredictable chaos of Twitter or the imposed rules of BlueSky
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@badaras
Apparently less scams and bots as well. On twitter pretty much every ad is a scam.
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