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“Farcaster: The Web3 Town Hall That Accidentally Turned Into a Boomer Family Text Thread” By: A Concerned Zoomer with a Fast Internet Connection and 3,000 Memes in Draft
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In the early days of Web3, Farcaster emerged as a shimmering promise of decentralized social media, a place where developers, degens, and digitally native nomads could congregate outside the corporate overlords of Meta and Twitter (or “X,” if you still pretend Elon’s rebranding wasn’t just a late-stage crypto divorce spiral). With its open protocol and high-minded ideals, Farcaster seemed poised to become the watering hole for the next internet generation. And then… boomers happened.
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No, not literal boomers (though there are rumors of a few LARPing as “crypto-native” while still trying to figure out how to force-quit Microsoft Word). We’re talking spiritual boomers: those users — often under 40! — who somehow emit the digital vibe of your uncle Gary texting a blurry BBQ photo to the family group chat with the caption, “nice day.” Let’s dive into how this tech-forward utopia became an accidental scrapbook for broke tech dads posting pixelated sunset photos and commenting “solid cast” like it’s 2012 and they just discovered Instagram.
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Part 1: “Did You Eat Yet?” – The Boomer Energy of Farcaster Farcaster was meant to be the playground of developers and thinkers — a cerebral Twitter alternative where ideas about decentralization, privacy, and new forms of community could flourish. Instead, it’s become the digital equivalent of your Aunt Cheryl’s 40-minute voice note about how Costco is out of rotisserie chickens again. Let’s take a walk through the app: A guy named “ethdad420” just posted his fourth picture of an empty coffee cup with the caption, “grind time.” Someone else posted a low-res picture of their feet on a patio with a comment thread that just says “vibes.” The top trending cast? “Just had a great sandwich. #BLT #blessed” You begin to wonder: Am I in a high-tech blockchain community or did I accidentally join a Facebook group for suburban hobby photographers named Mike?
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Part 2: “Back in My Day, ETH Gas Was 3 Gwei” There’s a special kind of Farcaster user who spends half the day complaining about how no one “understands protocol-level innovation anymore,” and the other half posting photos of their backyard, framed like an art-school project shot on a Nokia flip phone. They remember when Ethereum was $10. They always mention it. They don’t remember how to crop a photo. But somehow, their posts still get 27 likes from fellow protocol dads who say things like “gm fren” and unironically use the 🌞 emoji. These guys could write a full thesis on ZK-rollups but still can’t figure out how to rotate an image that uploaded sideways.
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Part 3: The Great Photo Flood Let’s talk about the photos. Farcaster is full of images, but not in a cool, curated way. It’s more like someone left the gate open at a retirement home Instagram bootcamp. You’ll see: Coffee mugs. So many coffee mugs. Close-ups of keyboards like they just got a new job at Staples. Blurry dogs. Slightly out-of-focus book covers with captions like, “revisiting this classic.” No context, no commentary. Just vibes. The vibe is your dad got a smartphone in 2015 and discovered how to add filters. And the comments? Unparalleled boomer energy: “Looks like a good read!” “Classic.” “Wow, great lighting. 📸” It’s a boomerified dopamine loop, where the likes are earned not from clever insight, but from mutual, polite nods of digital acknowledgment — like how grandparents wave at every single person in a grocery store.
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Part 4: Decentralized and… Broke? Let’s address the elephant in the Farcaster room: many of these poster-boomers are “Web3 rich,” which is to say… spiritually poor. There’s a unique Farcaster archetype that: Talks big about “network state theory” Is building “a new kind of wallet experience” Has been “heads-down” since 2021 Still lives in their parents’ basement And whose last crypto win was flipping a JPEG in 2021 for 0.04 ETH and a sandwich These are the people saying things like “still early,” while visibly holding back tears over the $38 in their Coinbase wallet. Their lives are governed by a sacred triangle: build, cope, cast. And the casting is relentless. One day it’s a philosophical take on digital identity, the next day it’s a blurry photo of a ham sandwich.
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Part 5: Group Chat Vibes, Forever Farcaster isn’t just like a family group chat. It is one. It has: That one user who won’t stop quoting Naval. The “try-hard nephew” posting AI selfies and asking for “engagement help.” The cryptic cousin who only posts once a week with stuff like, “the mind is an onion.” The boomer uncle asking, “anyone know how to get back into my seed phrase? Lost it again lol.” Everyone is pretending it’s a tech conversation, but in reality, it’s just: People checking in. Photos of dogs. Comments like “solid post, fren” And the occasional deeply unhinged debate about MEV or governance tokens that ends in someone saying “agree to disagree” with a peace emoji.
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