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Stephan
@stephancill
i give farcaster a hard time because i'm dissatisfied with the status quo of online social and feel like we have a genuine opportunity to do things differently this is why it frustrates me when farcaster leans into the same things that make traditional online social shitty thinking about it more i realized i don't actually know what farcaster is trying to achieve. does it want to solve fair distribution for creators? does it want to solve deplatforming and censorship? does it want to be a mini app platform? does it want to be a place where people make genuine connections? does it want to be a place people go for entertainment? does it want to be a composable social graph? does it want to be an app for people to discover crypto apps? i genuinely have no idea. this vacuum of direction invites people to shape their own narratives about farcaster and leads to everyone being disappointed when decisions are made that don't align with their idea of what it should be
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1 billion plus people using the protocol every day. We get there by figuring out how to grow retained daily active users sustainably. As users grow, developers have increased incentive to build new apps and services. Creating more options of users. Eventually, you get to a flywheel. Not close to that yet. Need to figure out what will grow retained daily active users. All of the other properties you cite are downstream of user growth in terms of importance. Reasonable to argue that we could “rug” the promise, but we’ve been clear for last 5 years we view success as building a successful protocol.
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Stephan
@stephancill
thanks. will think on this a bit
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Rundle 🍖
@rundle.eth
Dan's response inadvertantly reaffirms your point They want growth and that growth will lead to developers which lead to growth etc Your question was around what is farcaster FOR If they can't answer that question then getting the growth is gonna be much harder
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Stephan
@stephancill
Growth for the sake of growth isn’t a thing
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shoni.eth
@alexpaden
It’s for interoperable social, it’s a technology The app is for mostly crypto tangent people doing mostly text based social tangent stuff
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