Farcaster

Warpcast needs more content. That’s not a technical problem it’s a human problem — you just need more people naturally using the platform from all walks of life. They may be people you like or dislike but they and their interactions with each other make up the culture of the platform. The technical infrastructure is just like the physical infrastructure of a city, it’s there to facilitate what the people who choose to live there do.

I never used the Twitter competitors like Bluesky because they just seemed to be the exact same thing as Twitter but intended to create an ideological ghetto for people who felt uncomfortable there. I prefer a messy mix of ideologies, cultures, and politics because that’s more fun and more intellectually challenging. Warpcast is worth migrating because unlike Bluesky it’s genuinely a different and superior interface for interacting with people. Now it just needs the people and I think it naturally would take off and become a mass platform if that is the goal.

Writer, podcaster, and commentator on foreign affairs and politics. Runs /dropglobalnews

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Thanks! The challenge is very few people who already have audiences on Twitter want to switch (sunk cost).

So you have to market to people not on Twitter...who would be good at Twitter. :)

Impact

What's the value proposition? 2 things:

1) Harness FC's tipping economy (and later possibly other crypto-based mechanisms - QF, grants, etc.) to fund journalism based on quality reporting (not sensationalism or partisanship)

2) Allow truly censorship-resistant, independent journalism that works for the common interest

You can only realize these in a decentralized system (both the funding and the censorship resistance)

So income + trust & independence.

..something no legacy social media platform can offer (and something that's the dream of countless journalists who are trying to maintain a sense of objectivity in an attention economy that only cares about ratings).

We're already seeing tiny glimpses of this with /theindex & /dropglobalnews but to really get the economics going it needs to be a more broad effect

This could be a way to attract both journalists and mainstream users to FC (eg. if journalists cross post a fraction of their casts on other platforms). also a way to bring value to tipping coins

Farcaster has a value proposition that others can't match. This applies especially to journalists and other "content creators." Why not capitalize on it?

Farcaster has a value proposition that others can't match. This applies especially to journalists and other "content creators." Why not capitalize on it?
https://warpcast.com/abundance/0x3fa91175

Working on /impact ||


Abundance Economy book: book.abundance.id

I don't know about that but I think we can have an all-of-the-above approach.
I do like tips because they create more interesting social dynamics and incentives, which is important if you want independent journalism

dan doesnt love the tipping culture maybe?

we do have payments on profile now too.

but tips kinda are different innit