sometimes i get restless about farcaster’s pace, then i open x, bluesky, or reddit & remember: fc is still the least toxic room on the public forum

everything we grumble about here—hyper-financialization, ai sludge, echo-chamber groupthink—exists everywhere else at 10× scale

that’s not a farcaster flaw; it’s the web in 2025… open forums can’t sustain real signal

bots, yield-seekers, and low-effort content overwhelm niche expertise… as the dead-internet materializes, real conversation will retreat behind walls

the winning pattern is small, curated networks: 15-person group chats, 150-member private servers—numbers that track with dunbar’s limits on trust—these groups have almost exclusively pushed the world forward these last 20 years…

nations, firms & creators that control their own walled gardens capture both mind-share & margin…

geopolitically, socially, philosophically… the future is not “open” despite what the technocrats tell you

it’s closed

Maybe we need to make group chats more sticky, not channels.

Forget about channels.