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Thought experiment. Seems like dissatisfaction with X is increasing again. (Not surprisingly as we are in an election cycle) But let’s pretend X was built on top of Farcaster. People unhappy could leave and use a different client, without losing their followers or their content. What would that look like? What would actually happen? Would there be alt clients that people would actually migrate to? Would X be worried about losing market share and work to keep people around? Or would people just stay on X and complain?

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People stay and complain, pretty much like people stay here (WC) and complain not leaving at all (to other clients)

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Outside of the crypto twitter crowd etc, there seemed to be a significant exodus to threads...when it first launched it seemed to be a place to hate on elon and his views etc etc. have seen a few of the well known liberal journalists come back to X, yet there is still a rather fanatical group of lefty folks on threads. its a "silo" effect of social media - imagine truth social, bluesky etc help further separate the conversations. I like the opportunity to hear from and consider other's viewpoints, but for folks with large followings the trolling etc can be overwhelming I reckon.

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Yes, one with KYC and a flag visible on their profiles so we know who the foreign actors are peddling propaganda to besmirch a nation not theirs.

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My observation is - people stay and complain. The ones that wanted to leave - left. It is part of X vibe, this low grade constant dissatisfaction.

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They probably keep complaining. Most people who would left already did or didn't even joined the platform

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It'd look like Nostr.

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I wonder about this, and not in any confident sort of way. social networks have experienced exodus in the past while coexisting at a different time e.g. digg -> reddit, but ownership of these platforms could be seen as decisive. the question I'd pose to/as the ecosystem: is the "delta" of tools like buoy, farhouse, etc also carrying a more general, FOSS platform for "bazaar vs garden" DX? in other words, when people try to commercialize social network + media feed, or some sliding scale of either, is it trivial to fork this experience without incurring further technical debt? to further entertain the thought experiment, which is the better at-cost searching apparatus? twitter/stacks may both be filling in the lower quality search, but as far as leading-edge, it's not like farcaster clients are close as is. so maybe it's a jagged duple like today, where journalists might frequent stacks for personal commentary, and twitter for remaining to relay breaking news, source by source, checking bluesky just in case.

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Honestly people complain all the time I think they will stay But I also think that there are new gen of ppl who won’t use X they will use something else, maybe one of the FC client

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Would really depend on if you could motivate a large enough cohort to leave together to the same place to have a similar experience to what they have on X. So, if you are a big fan of news accounts or sports teams, influencers, etc. You want to see your in-group and any community adjacent groups to leave with you. That's why Threads was so interesting since there was already a preexisting community based on your insta followers there waiting for you.

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