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random observations: have noticed for a year+ that the behaviors / trends / content that do the best here track closest to early Facebook than to any other current platform (X, TikTok, Insta). why? i think there's an exhaustion with performative social and instead people crave low-stakes, casual spaces where they can share random thoughts and just connect. farcaster offers that to a lot of users today; the most common pieces of feedback: - from the older generation, "it reminds me of the early internet" - from the younger generation, "its for posting whatever is on my mind, which can be harder to do on other platforms. magic internet friends." for the millennials, it offers a brand new network. they're not posting to friends or colleagues; they're posting to their followers most of whom they've never met before. for college students, they never had a public digital space like Facebook. they only had instagram (performative feed) or snapchat (private messaging). the other similarity with Facebook is that it had Facebook Platform: set of tools / product for third-party devs to create their own apps that could access data in Facebook (gifts, marketplace, events, video, games; honestly worth studying the history of Facebook Platform).
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Just talked about this with @benbassler.eth an hour ago. Farcaster's infrastructure facilitates interactions, not just one-to-many broadcasting. The mini apps and channels also create flexibility for people to find their people and build their tools. The other social platforms feel like American karaoke: one person on stage at a time, stakes are higher for humiliation, everyone else forced to listen at full volume, whether they like it or not. Farcaster’s more like Korean karaoke: you can get into your private rooms with small groups, have more control over the settings, and feel more free to try new things rather than worrying about what will perform well for the masses. This is why I’m optimistic that the beloved "cozy corners" here people are afraid of losing *can* scale, even as the network grows.
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This is good: "The other social platforms feel like American karaoke..."
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i want korean karaoke so badly in america.. at korean prices..
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