ted (not lasso) on Farcaster

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ted (not lasso)

random observations: have noticed for a year+ that the behaviors / trends / content that do the best here track closest to early Facebook than to any other current platform (X, TikTok, Insta). why? i think there's an exhaustion with performative social and instead people crave low-stakes, casual spaces where they can share random thoughts and just connect. farcaster offers that to a lot of users today; the most common pieces of feedback: - from the older generation, "it reminds me of the early internet" - from the younger generation, "its for posting whatever is on my mind, which can be harder to do on other platforms. magic internet friends." for the millennials, it offers a brand new network. they're not posting to friends or colleagues; they're posting to their followers most of whom they've never met before. for college students, they never had a public digital space like Facebook. they only had instagram (performative feed) or snapchat (private messaging). the other similarity with Facebook is that it had Facebook Platform: set of tools / product for third-party devs to create their own apps that could access data in Facebook (gifts, marketplace, events, video, games; honestly worth studying the history of Facebook Platform).

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Ted, will you be in my Myspace top 8?

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can confirm the 'older' part being in my 50s and also cheer up the young gun's experience - bc that is what I also value: raw, non-performative ideas and musings from people just a bit older than my son, so that I get a diverse range of perspectives of Gen X / Alpha from outside my own family system. Also interested in this from a future of work perspective being in that space professionally.

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wow this is so on point

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I despise performative social media with all my being 🤮🤮🤮🤮

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I pitched Farcaster to a friend yesterday as the place to have real conversations and connections with people (primarily in crypto but expanding).

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Interesting that you push for low stakes and other people push for more performative entertainment

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Fascinating. And also, oh god I hope we never evolve to become late Facebook.

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great insight, there’s even a FarmVille clone in the mix!

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Just talked about this with @benbassler.eth an hour ago. Farcaster's infrastructure facilitates interactions, not just one-to-many broadcasting. The mini apps and channels also create flexibility for people to find their people and build their tools. The other social platforms feel like American karaoke: one person on stage at a time, stakes are higher for humiliation, everyone else forced to listen at full volume, whether they like it or not. Farcaster’s more like Korean karaoke: you can get into your private rooms with small groups, have more control over the settings, and feel more free to try new things rather than worrying about what will perform well for the masses. This is why I’m optimistic that the beloved "cozy corners" here people are afraid of losing *can* scale, even as the network grows.

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This is on the $ a key difference comparing it to FB: the mini-app ecosystem feels like a Zynga 2.0, except it’s a part of the protocol. Zuck could just flip a switch and shut things down, here it’s permissionless, and creator-owned from day one. Super bullish on FC especially the mini-apps

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Might be a v weird take but I'm actually comparing it closest to Kongregate extremely dev-friendly, vocal/supportive community, good stream of releases & updates I think if I were to compare it to fb then yeah, I'd tie it back to their app boom (zynga-fuelled era)

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gidwell (暇人/acc)

elder millennial content

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Couldn’t agree more! Hype vibez of fake live admiration on Insta are definitely past times. But I am happy for this phase to be over. Hopefully now we can find consensus that socials and other people’s brain space should be treated with respect ✨ One can hope 😅🤞

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We need a Top 8 on Farcaster that adds Dan by default to everyone like Tom did lol

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I agree with you. I think communicating in video form ups the stakes here so it’s going to be interesting what happens. I personally find it harder to commit the effort to post in video form but I also plan to build tooling that makes that easier with Ai (see here https://docklabs.notion.site/What-is-Emerge-21199a35c8b1804b8c92c60c40bc7f9b?source=copy_link)

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Agree. Not that my opinion matters, but what keeps me coming back is getting likes and good-faith replies. These mostly come from my magic internet friends on here, not random ppl that aren't mutual followers. It feels like facebook before zuc dropped the .edu requirement to sign up: a safe place to share with friends

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Wait we all weren’t in our senior high school when Facebook started? 🤯 Agree with this, I did early Facebook then got off social media for years. Like that sort of vibe

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I always thought it was like a central discord house where the channels were the organization. The X comp I never got tbh. Just always felt different.

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