“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

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?

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.

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.