Will FC ever get past the Insiders only phase and become desirable for the general public without resorting to the funny money carrot on a stick to onboard them? How many years will it be a builders club?

Artist, musician, developer, Rogue Pedicab.
/cryptoart /muse /mxjxn  
$mxjxn 
linktr.ee/mxjxn Crypto since 2014.

True, and I totally get that we can't force our way into the mainstream. I guess then the question becomes how will the wider internet become crypto native? This builders club seems to be the forefront of usability experiments. Will FC builders spearhead wider adoption? Or will we merely be there waiting for the day that widespread crypto adoption comes to pass?

For better for worse, we're tied to sentiment about crypto. 

I suspect nearly all of these people would reject Farcaster because it's "crypto".

Need to focus on cryptonatives.

i feel like if it becomes that unavoidable (as opposed to just genuinely attracting people) then every other more popular app will find ways to integrate it in those unavoidable ways …

Absolutely. I think this is entirely dependent on crypto becoming an unavoidable part of how we all use the internet. Which doesn't seem less than 5 years out

hard to imagine since it’s always been so dependent on and built around that

https://media.tenor.com/eKH_WQL3clEAAAAC/garden-chance