Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

The initial users of bluesky were essentially tech people interested in decentralized tech 

That culture got completely wiped out by bluesky pandering to Twitter refugees at every opportunity

Very smart of @dwr.eth and @v not to have jumped on that bandwagon when it could have been easy bumps for protocol metrics

That does beg the question of how to grow a network without eroding the culture that makes it special – this is a solvable problem. 

Reddit is proof: it’s able to house and preserve the widest diversity of content on the internet

fortune cookie casts, memes, parenting, building mini apps, /framedl, /framedl-pro & /calmer

localism and boundaries

no way to grow big and not devolve into a pile of mess with a single "town square"

still mostly analog. patterns, builder, entrepreneur, analyzing your transactions since 2016

Do you think that coincided with closing up of the APIs?

That’s personally when I stopped using it but up until that point I could find everything I wanted on there

for a long time it did.. but for me it didnt hold up

The world of apps for everyone is in the past. Too easy going forward to spam with infinite accounts.

Need to invest a lot of time and energy in sourcing the user base you want for your product.

Or have a killer reputation system out there that handles this for product teams, but none exist