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Please join the discussion, would love to hear your opinions: I'm constantly thinking about how to improve this platform for artists, collectors and art enjoyers alike. I kind of left Twitter/X for various reasons, since Musk took over and turned it into a propaganda machine. But whenever I return there for a quick update, my art feed is really top notch. Almost everybody who is active here, also posts or cross-shares frequently on X as well. But more important, a lot of artist I want to follow and I want to be informed about only post there (and maybe on Bluesky, Mastodon, IG as well, don't know). Point is, they all have a Farcaster account, but turned their backs on the platform at some point or never really got into it. I would therefore be delighted if they were to return and exploit Farcaster's potential.

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Specifically with gen art, I feel we're just lacking numbers here. Not just artists, but collectors, curators, commentators, shitposters etc. Take, for example, the recent Botto release. It's stirred up a massive storm over on X but when I search for Botto here, I only see a handful of posts. FC seems to be the place to be if you're a builder. There seems to be enough of a community here to keep it interesting if you're into app and general development. Sadly not for gen art I feel.

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You're absolutely right, Benj. But I personally don't want to give up on this. X is not an option for me anymore. And I'm a little shocked at how many artists don't seem to care. Sure, rebuilding the same following and reach here, is a long rocky path. Probably impossible for now. And it looked a lot better a year ago with everybody searching for alternatives and joining Farcaster. Unfortunately, for various reasons, most did not stick with the platform.

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Yea I completely understand where you're coming from. I really love the idea of a decentralized social graph. Won't be giving up on fc for sure. It just takes so much time to upkeep all the different social accounts. Really requires effort if I'm trying to engage in some meaningful discourse.

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Glad to hear, I won't loose you anytime soon, Benj 🫂 What could be an idea to port your graph from everywhere else? And maybe even operate different channels simultaneously with multiplying the workload?

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I'm really not sure tbh. At this point, those who want to quit X seem to either go Bluesky or IG. FC is kinda hard to navigate for a non crypto native person. Heck it's hard even for a crypto native person to understand what's going on. As for reducing workload, I tend to post the same thing on all platforms which isn't ideal. Last few weeks I've been trying to engage more here but I find the more interesting conversations happening in the non art topics. There's lots of art posted, but I don't find a lot of conversation. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, I dunno.

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@mariuswatz just yesterday said, that his replacement strategy is Bluesky for politics/news and Farcaster for art, which I'm super happy about. But if we come back to generative artists or digital artists in general. Who is not crypto-native or well-versed with at least everything related to NFTs? What else do you need to know/understand to navigate Farcaster? At least at a basic level communicating with everyone else? I'd love to put the tipping and earning possibilities aside in my thinking, sure this can be really attractive and a great incentive, but ideally a product should be convincing enough, its userbase should be interesting and communicative enough, without throwing magic internet money at their users. Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful for it and I make use of it, but there's so many things I haven't found the time to dive into yet, like /higher, ham, rare, all the meme coin launchpads and a ton of other things.

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Conversations about art and healthy discussions are too few, that's really true. It's not enough to just showcase and market off your art or show what you have collected as a collector. I try to come up with a few *event* ideas now and then, but that's by far not the intellectual exchange we need to progress. Really would love to be more inspirational in that regard. Very good point indeed 🙏

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