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i don’t like to toot my own horn, but i correctly predicted selfie video would become dominant on farcaster months ago. my next prediction is that Farcaster Events will be the next retentive feature for fc. Events will visualizes social participation, mixing influences of Fb Events, Luma, and @crowdfund’s share card. It will be the best place to see what’s going on in crypto irl. ogs complaining about selfies in the feed today will be drawn further into fc by the unparalleled irl experience fc will provide crypto natives at irl meetups. people reluctant to join fc will install the app thanks to the WoM peer pressure from friends using the Events feature. people will decide which cons to attend months in advance based on social density of fc profiles marked attending. people will choose between side events based on social density of checked in attendees. the opt in nature of public event attendance will marry the appeal of snap maps style miniapps like wyat and frens v1 with limited disclosure concerns re: wrench attacks. farcaster events will be widely compared to facebook events in crypto news outlets and on ct. people will demand private attendance features and suggest world integration. old accounts will reactivate when attending devconnect, permissionless, ethdenver, and ethcc. these will be signs of its success.
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de ja vu 😅
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yes but different timing and will only work if merkle does it as a first party feature
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why do you think it needs to be first party? seems like exactly the kind of thing that should be a mini app
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Facebook Events would never have worked as a Platform app even in the halcyon zynga days. I answer in further detail in my latest post. Essentially: you want first class notifs, first class location, and you want it to be built by a properly capitalized startup that doesn’t intend to make money from the events product itself.
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FC already has notifs and location? the question is whether conference/event/concert organizers would move away from luma/ticketmaster etc and i strongly doubt it
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No, there’s are substantial differences in UX, notifs, and location whether it’s fc that does it as a first party client feature vs a mini app. Simplest examples are mini apps don’t have lock screen level notifs, nor a dedicated tab in the app, nor deep mini app results in fc search. There will need to be a EthCC page in the app that you can find via search and that pops up if you change your location to Cannes, etc. Events as a mini app will not succeed because it is not a venture scale business on its own. The purpose of events is to create a network effect around the core protocol, like fb did with their events product. The initial development should allow it to be a superset of luma, partiful, eventbrite, and proprietary registration — a social layer on top — because no event organizer wants to restrict attendance to farcasters only. A later version could add full event creation and management in the app, but frankly owning that logic is a convenience and not a necessity for fc’s goals. It should replace proprietary side event spreadsheets.
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the differences you mention are small—they would work fine as a mini app with the existing platform. as you said, the issue is it’s not a venture scale business and event hosts won’t switch over. has nothing to do with the UI. all that said i agree some sort of social maps experience would hit.
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