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Why isn't Farcaster actually going after users who are silenced on social media? @dwr @v These users are NOT glamorous, typically societal vices, and you're wading into geopolitics. But if the goal of FC is to build a sufficiently decentralized network, why isn't there a concerted effort to reach those who need this most? Folks and similar apps they use: - Banned from trad social media apps (conspiracy theorists on official topics like healthcare, those advocating for hate/violence, etc - dark corners of reddit, 4chan, youtube) - Deboosted on trad social media apps (Rumble, Truth Social) - NSFW (Onlyfans) - Gambling (Kick) - Users in sanctioned countries (Iran, Syria, etc) or countries without freedom of speech; though this is more a 3rd party dev initiative, since the FC app likely can't take these users on IMO going after crypto traders is a crowded market, and every trading app is building a feed/commenting xp (see Clicker, Share, FOMO, etc)
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i reach out to users esp builders i see deboosted on twitter/x but don't think this should be the ultimate strategy, not enough to sustain growth and starts also becoming a pretty fragmented user group focused more on going after crypto community right now. especially since starting with the social graph first and then trading (vs other way around) is a genuine edge imo
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agreed that 1 by 1 isn't a strategy, but i wonder if going for an edgier audience (non-devs, some group that society doesn't like) can be a 10x strategy for farcaster is the thesis about building a sufficiently decentralized network, or just building with the biggest network of socials + wallets? i wonder if the latter has a terminal state (crypto traders), esp if you're trying to be the next big social media network. sooner or later, you need to reach non-crypto users. so why not go for the thesis directly rather than take the long way around?
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there are multiple decentralized networks (e.g. bluesky) so you're still pitching against those and it's always an uphill battle. there are a smaller amount of crypto native decentralized networks and i believe farcaster is the strongest one so it's a more straightforward pitch, plus where my own network and a lot of the team's network is
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