If you find Farcaster fun, what's preventing you from inviting 1-2 friends and helping them get started here?

Farcaster

Me: How can I onboard more cool scientists/creatives on to farcaster 

*coinbase sponsors trump’s b-day military parade* 

what the helly

https://farcaster.xyz/gmo/0x161f050e

Not joking, two of my closest friends are both rocket scientists at NASA that have hobbies in Astro photography, music, and more.

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Not sure if you thought I responded to your other post, but I haven't invited them to Farcaster per the previous post. 

They are running into issues due to the current administration if that is your question.

> They are running into issues due to the current administration if that is your question.

How is that related to Farcaster?

You asked what is preventing me from inviting and onboarding them to Farcaster, this is why

You asked what is preventing me from inviting and onboarding them to Farcaster, this is why https://farcaster.xyz/gmo/0x161f050e

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I think it’s both, both farcaster founders are ex-coinbase, the ecosystem is very ‘base’ heavy and then on top of that it’s not doing favours for general crypto rep, it’s just not a good look in general unfortunately

While Farcaster != CB, this resonates https://farcaster.xyz/gmo/0xb711c4af

The best rebuttal I've had is pointing to the lively (or once lively) /cryptoleft community here. At the very least, it starts a conversation.

I'm just butting in here but my sense from talking to people I know offline is they associate crypto with the right, and especially with tech fascism like Palantir and Thiel (and AI drones assassinating Palestinians) and basically view it as part of the dystopian Terminator-world future they don't want. I of course have counterpoints but then, every single crypto exchange or on ramp is run by Trump supporters or other billionaire connected people. So while blockchains can be for decentralization and cypherpunk values which the left has some alignment with, in reality *in the USA* in 2025 crypto is largely a capitalist thing aligned with the genocidal imperial military. So they aren't interested in Farcaster because it's connected to that world. But these are just acquaintances or coworkers, I don't have time to talk more about it or try to convince them it's a lot more nuanced than that.

So the claim is because I happened to work at Coinbase 5 years ago what Coinbase does today is Farcaster's branding?