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Farcaster I think can turn it's weakness into a strength. The weakness -- my weakness when onboarding people -- is that there are multiple hurdles you have to get a person over just to agree to try it out. Crypto alone is a huge hurdle. And everyone's exhausted and nobody wants another social account. But the strength is in how this is truly frontier stuff- tight wallet and app integrations into social media Is just so much smoother than plug-ins like metamask or anything that requires wallet connect. This is the superior crypto social experience. For the people who get the scene here, this place rules. We are here way more than X, for reasons. But for outsiders, they need a strong motivation to be here. Most people here for the crypto leave whenever the latest wellspring dries up. The social incentives are not there for them. For me as a builder and cryptoartist the incentive is clear - I'm in the arena trying things, I want to show my work and gain some public integrity. I liked what that guy I think Benny said in the @farcaster community call the other day about not wanting to see channels he can't participate in. I don't necessarily agree, but I can imagine a better social media platform where channels can be private, or at least not be shown on main. If channels could be quickly spun up for a group, it might be easier to onboard communities of people. Wouldn't it be nice to have a feed just for channels you follow? Just like we have for accounts we follow! I can't tell you the number of people I don't follow because they post certain apps or participate in certain communities that I just don't care to see. Even if I like what they say otherwise.

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