Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
Farcaster maintaining a steadfast commitment to free speech is vital to its continued growth. There's a real degree of civility here. The easy explanation for that is that the community is still small, so people are polite in the same way Iceland is civil or a countryclub is a civil. But I suspect there's another dimension to it: there's money on the line here, and acting rude is a bad way to get people to want to give you any. Hopefully that insulates this place against needing to crack down on the kind of bigotry or harmful posting you see on other platforms. But either way, let Substack be the model for /farcaster. Better to allow some vile posting and let the social marketplace sort it out than step into the quagmire of censorship according to shifting social norms.
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frederick
@sgniwder
it’s small here, but people have real relationships here too. I think this lends to the civility. Twitter is too toxic for me to spend large amounts of time there. I’d rather have discussions
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Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
I feel that. The one benefit is that twitter has enough breadth that you get just more people, more discussions to search and more serious people in entire industries. I’d like to import more of Energy Twitter to Farcaster. A contingent migrated to Bluesky but the energy world — other than renewables people — tends to skew conservative so there’s a definitely ceiling to that migration.
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frederick
@sgniwder
i definitely understand this. when i need a larger group or topics not on farcaster to review, i go there and sometimes other places to look at things. still take much of it with a grain of salt though while trying to sift through the trusted people and away from the engagement farmers and high number of bots
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