Eric P. Rhodes
@epr
many web3 digital artists have ditched @warpcast and are now focusing exclusively on x. you might think, "so what?" but this actually matters. these artists already get the tech and are deep in crypto culture. yet, they don’t care enough about farcaster to connect with their audience here. the dev/builder-heavy culture on farcaster might be cool if you’re into that niche, but it’s still just that—a niche. and i get that you might not like hearing this, but it’s the truth. for artists who just want to share their work, it’s exhausting. the best product managers i’ve worked with as a designer focus on bridging the gap between tech and consumers, leaning toward the consumer side. it feels like the farcaster builder ecosystem is resisting that approach, stuck in the dev mindset. maybe it’s because those deep in engineering often lack the consumer vision.
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Tony
@0xt0ny
"artists who just want to share their work" I could do with less constant bombardment of AI generated slop and endless free mint frames. Artists just looking for another sales channel where they can post their stuff and disappear have never liked farcaster, and that's kinda ok with me, rather have the builder talk
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Eric P. Rhodes
@epr
Thanks for proving my point. Dismissing artists for wanting better sales channels is exactly the problem. Why shouldn't they want to improve their reach? You've got the 'builder talk' here, and that's fine. But right now, it's a super niche space for devs. And that's it. If that’s the goal, great. But it severly limits the broader appeal. Farcaster could be more if it bridged the gap between builders and creators instead of pushing anyone who's not a builder away.
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Tony
@0xt0ny
I guess your definition of "artist" is more generous than mine
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Tony
@0xt0ny
To fully finish the thought....I don't want to be 'sold' in the place where I come to talk and exchange ideas, its the digital equivalent of someone stuffing a flyer in your face as you walk by. If there are channels where I can choose to see this content, great! But I suspect the 'artists' don't want that model b/c no one would voluntarily go to a channel to get shilled by hundreds of people
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proxy
@proxystudio.eth
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that every artist on Farcaster - a very small network - will find sustainable audiences for their work. I hope more and more do over time, but we also need to be realistic about both the NFT market and the number of artists that can be sustained by a patronage model (mints without any expectation of resale) People who do build audiences and platforms here will probably have a harder time of it initially, and will likely win bigger over a longer time frame.
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