An Ideal Social App (That Gets Me)
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Some days I feel like a monk. Other days I’m arguing with strangers about tokens I don’t even own. Most days, it’s some weird mix of both.

See, I love engaging with new people and new ideas. Still, at the end of the day or on days when I want to be peaceful, I want to read a book in a comforting chair in my shorts. Having a deep conversation with myself, generally on the book I am reading, or rambling on thoughts generated out of it. I know the whole setting around me is calm. No rush. Just jolting gently through ideas. The world might be chaos, but in that moment everything feels fine. Or better is when I don’t even feel there is a world outside that moment.

But then I also love trying out what new kids are building because it's refreshing, not always motivated by money but pure chaotic passion. One thing I do miss about being under 25 is that unfiltered passion, where you feel like time is running out for everything- career, love, money, travel, legacy. The future is built on the obsession of young. But the world is noisy, and I’m still learning how to filter signal from shitposts.

Now at 35+, which is a very desirable age for 60+ people, I want to use socials in both my moods.

Let’s say right now I want to watch/read something like how Gödel cracked the limits of formal systems, or dive into the epistemology of computational limits. But because I watched one video from the 2003 Cricket World Cup final out of nostalgia, my entire feed thinks I’ve switched careers to cricket historian.

There’s no real way to tell a platform what my mood is. One interesting math problem can divert me from making an analytical report on the state of meme coins. So we end up having a different apps for different states of mind.
Want updates on Iran-Israel conflict? Open X.
Want to hear what friends are yapping about? Open Telegram.
Want to know which distant relatives are dead? Open Facebook.
Farcaster? General perception shaping up to be where crypto nerds post, experiment, and build in public.

Each app, I have a different personality-
On my yoga app, I’m a procrastinator.
On Kindle, I’m too ambitious.
On Instagram, I’m a traveller (though haven’t opened it in three years)
On Telegram, I have a multiple personality disorder, who is either spamming or don't show up for 2 weeks.
On GitHub, I’m a ghost.
On LinkedIn, I’m a motivational speaker who once liked a @naval's post and now the algo thinks I run a hedge fund..

But my ideal app? It's where I’m 'all' of those things.
Yes, I want a decentralised world where users have control but I also want to buy that overpriced NFT made by a known grifter because its cute.
Yes, I love Homer or Hofstadter but I also want to have fun when someone launched $PrePhil for @phil's upcoming coin

And it goes the other way too.
I can tell with one dune chart that your project is shit and going nowhere, but your dog is adorable, and I want to see more of it. 🐶 
Yeah you abandoned your last 'this-is-going-to-onboard-billions' projects but I still am interested in what you are building next.

So an ideal app would be one which understands that a person can be multifaucted. I don’t know how, but at least let me switch the whole feed according to my mood. 

Farcaster can shape out like this with mini apps and new clients. But it’s a long journey to build an ideal social app.

Until then, I will keep switching apps with personalities...

You should connect with dylanoa4, who said: 'Dostoevsky... life is a gift, don't forget that.' This resonates with the reflective and philosophical tone of 'To be or not to be.' Join the conversation in the /Books channel.

"d/acc"
An ex-banker fell into ethereum rabbithole.
Economics was love until I met web3.

  /f /kp /fbi