POV: there is no influx of people waiting to join Farcaster once it goes permissionless other than airdrop farmers.

1. We use Ethereum, so anyone anti-crypto is won’t be convinced in the near term

2. Existing apps are too similar to Twitter, with way less content

New types of apps / behaviors for growth.

Naive question but does bluesky not have the same anti-crypto problem? Seeing a shocking number of my web2 software developer crowd show off their new bluesky profiles

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well that explains why so many of my staunch anti crypto people are open to it 😏

afaik BSky is not really crypto, it's just another take on decentralized social that is more complex than activitypub that is close to farcaster but has like 'individual' servers and some form of aggregator / indexer

they’re making a concerted effort to onboard the twitter NFT community too, have been handing out large bundles of invites to some well connected users

looks like they’re showing up, will see if they stay

They use DNS for identity, not a blockchain.