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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).

wait… has anyone checked the Facebook mobile app recently???

go look at it and report back

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I've stopped using Facebook because it's extraordinarily difficult to identify posts from actual people I know versus all of the ads and suggestions etc. in the feed

For a while I still kept using it to try to keep up with friends and stuff, but eventually just became almost impossible to actually see what they were posting

glad my info could help

FB has felt far less genuine in recent years

A lot of ppl projecting the life they want to show rather than what they're actually experiencing 

Hopefully that doesn't become the case here

good insights!! mine doesn’t feel like that so guess it depends on the network. also was a genuine question, not doubting your experience - just trying to learn.

In your QC you mentioned early Facebook, which is not what FB that would feel like without ads 

My FB feed today is still highly performative: either in terms of performative political posturing or performative lifestyle humble brags, etc