Lately, I've been more active on Bluesky (different topic, different anon), and it's growing pretty fast. Given Elon has oriented Twitter towards anti-intellectualism, certain communities have moved wholesale already, particularly academia related. It's basically just Twitter without the bloat, but slower still... Farcaster is more interesting to me, but Bluesky has won the attention game - no one knows Farcaster exists outside the niche crypto crowd.

bluesky is just a different in/out group, same anti-intellectualism and partisan politics just in the opposite direction

Farcaster-native research: https://paragraph.xyz/@matthewb | prev. Juicebox, Nouns, RAW DAO | casting about coffee, hi-fi, and other rabbit holes

I’m convinced this is one of the saner, more open-minded, more middle-ground, less extremist ideology reinforcing places online.

An underrated data point - out of all the platforms, Bluesky and LinkedIn included, Warpcast is the only place I’ve never received a death threat

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

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