7858
@7858.eth
Alright I slept on it and it’s still eating at me. This is poison. Is it a step toward 10x’ing DAUs? Almost certainly. I don’t blame Merkle. But this is exactly the kind of mechanism that promotes Current Thingism and tanks the average shelf life of content on a platform. It incentivizes top level casts and replies in the moment’s hottest little bucket over sharing the original thoughts on niche topics that made this place so appealing in the first place. And it was the complete absence of this kind of timeline cruft that made Farcaster feel so preternaturally high signal and productive of non-regretted interactions. This is eulogy for an era that I will remember with great fondness, not a protest or feedback. Happily for all of us, this place is not designed by committee. This is reality, where goods and services cost money. Merkle either slowly bleeds to death providing a magical tree fort for my favorite nerds or it lives long enough to see itself become something more like TikTok. 🫡
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Joshua Fisher ⌐◨-◨
@joshuafisher.eth
Also anyone can theoretically create a new Client that optimizes for what we love, Merkles job is to get so many users that it invites new client developers
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The goal is to make this personalized for you over time. Less global and more tailored to your interests. We’re iterating.
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links 🏴
@links
It’s inevitable. In the search for early majority you often must leave early adopters behind. It’s the difference between a stated va revealed preference. It’s the difference between winning and losing, between a hobby and a business. At least here someone can create a new client but…the more popular it gets the more likely it will follow suit.
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Royal
@royalaid.eth
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Catch0x22 (2025 variant)
@catch0x22.eth
I think the concern is valid, but i can't imagine it'll get much use if anything, this might help sure up what gets trending. so something that's interesting worldwide might trend, tariffs, sports etc but the weirder topics that are always surfacing on warpcast might trend then what would be trending on coinbase wallet feed? who knows 🤷♂️
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