> 2025: Farcaster is Instagram!

partially kidding, but quick thoughts on new vertical video push:

1- mad respect to @dwr.eth founder mode pivoting once again

2- the focus seems driven by Base farcaster-integrated wallet launch / their new social strategy (see: anewdayone.xyz)

3- the launch moment (nikita bier style) and bootstrap phase of a new social graph seems to be the main way to overcome the initial network effects problems

4- having a fair shot at winning in the social graph status game (max follower count) is a primary driver for the "creators" (the 1% of the 1-9-90) that will publish most of the content to the network (see also: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service)

5- because of (3) and (4), I think that launching a fresh graph might be better than trying to build off a new one

6- I also think the graph of new users is likely to have low overlap with the graph of hardcore qDAUs that have stuck around

curious to hear others' thoughts

if nuking the entire social graph is on the table, I would also like to suggest nuking the entire codebase and redoing the app from 0 too

just destroy everything and reappear as TikTok but “ onchain “

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nothing will fix the true root issue of this app which is that everyone here is subtly or in a lot of case, not subtly, here to make money. there are very few people here to actually post for the love of it. it's an unfixable problem because crypto.

keep tedposting, make these technology obsessed grifters crazy! make them log off!

It doesn’t help the vibe, I’ll tell you that much 😞

Farcaster

FARCASTER IS NOT A SOCIAL NETWORK

IT IS A COMMERCE NETWORK. 

PEOPLE COME HERE TO MAKE MONEY, NOT FRIENDS.

time to accept this and iterate on this strength, @dwr.eth

100% agree, I said it a week ago. It is the unspoken truth.

last year, i said that this place is too much a circle jerk and doesn't reward new users & hence user retention will suffer badly. the founders first ignored/mocked that and it took a year for them to accept that bitter truth. 

now this second truth will be accepted probably another year later after many failed pivot attempts. i am rooting for this place to succeed.

100% agree, I said it a week ago. It is the unspoken truth.

last year, i said that this place is too much a circle jerk and doesn't reward new users & hence user retention will suffer badly. the founders first ignored/mocked that and it took a year for them to accept that bitter truth. 

now this second truth will be accepted probably another year later after many failed pivot attempts. i am rooting for this place to succeed. 

https://farcaster.xyz/vinaydebrou.eth/0x85df03d2

every platform, crypto or not, has a lot of people who are only on there to make money, but farcaster has improved somewhat imo in overall quality and diversity of topics compared to a year or two ago