if you're an artist on farcaster, pivot back to twitter.

photographer • gen art noob /priyanka • art subscription hypersub.xyz/s/patronsofblue

happy to discuss any specific point in detail. the short sentences don't do my feelings about it justice.

hi! i shared detailed feedback with dan, but here's a gist of it.

- media quality still needs big improvements 
- collectors still on twitter (many joined fc and left last year)
- art platforms are not building on fc (manifold, transient, superrare)
- hyper financialization seems to have killed organic interaction
- most active users aren't into art (users are hungry for lifestyle content over art)
- recent creator focus changes give very instagram/tiktok vibes. feels like moving away from what made fc different (artists != creators)
- artist friends already left/have one foot out the door

it genuinely hurt to even write my original cast because i hate what twitter has become over the last few years, and i've tried to be so patient to ride out the lull with everyone else here and engage with new fun things going on on fc, but right now some of us need to focus elsewhere to survive financially. 🥲 

cc @gracealmera @dijaraj @popszi @architsharma.eth (tagging since u asked why i said so)

curious why?

not an artist, but as a collector this app doesn't make it easy to share work in a way that looks great at all. gif support is really lacking too

Artist and traveler living in my 2007 4Runner.

i hate feeling this way. twitter is awful. sigh.

not an artist, but as a collector this app doesn't make it easy to share work in a way that looks great. gif support is really lacking too

community builder /bright-moments, storyteller, AI enthusiast, activist, nonprofit founder /crystal-hearts @crystalhearts 🤍🇺🇦📍Venice Beach

Yeah, true. I mean, that’s why most started casting here in the first place. Some definitely stuck around a bit longer. Some generative artists I followed back then are still here, but from what I see, they’re not getting any engagement whatsoever, so I get  why they’d leave.

Most of them left after they cannot get any degen from anyone

I feel like so many artists already did 🫠 A few days ago, I manually went through my following list and unfollowed tons of inactive accounts that haven’t casted in months and most of them were artists

I really like FC better, but honestly feeling that this is more for builders. I started posting on Twitter/X again and the algo sucks!, but the NFT people are there.

why?
I went back to see whats going on and missed some of my photo friends, but its still a terrible place :D

Still and Moving Images, Designer & Drop D appreciator. Latest: COLORIDⴷ - view on https://colorida.art | Building: noaapp.xyz [proof of concept]

wanted to quote but it was adding a weird preview when adding the second. ugh. 

but yes, this is it.

Some of us can't because our art got us banned from there