There is a lot of discussion on Farcaster of getting more people to use Farcaster. I think it’s obvious that you should just invite people to use it. This is how I started using it.

You need to target people who actually respect the platform and would take an interest in the community. They should come from all different backgrounds, but also shouldn’t have giant egos. They should be down to earth people who just like to post, share information, and interact.

There already seems to be lots of tech people and VCs so there’s not an obvious point in further saturating the platform with this type of individual. There is a big world out there with all diverse types of people looking for a home. I believe its possible to build a community wherever the infrastructure works.

The single most useful thing anyone can do to help Farcaster is invite 1 person and be their Farcaster sherpa for the first month.

1. Onboard them

2. Start a direct cast with them (make sure they keep notifications on)

3. Start sending them interesting people and casts

4. Answer their questions

5. Encourage them to cast in channels they might have top 10% (or 1% knowledge on)

Most of the ppl I know are normies - I gave up on actively introducing them to Web3 until the computer is clearly more powerful than the casino

I don’t mind onboarding someone if they’re already interested (which rarely ever happens) but I’m not an evangelist - I don’t like telling ppl what to do and what is better for them - they need to dtor 

Feel free to tell me I’m part of the problem (maybe) but I don’t wanna put ppl and my own rep on the line bc the current Web3 is unstable to say the least

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Normie homie. Works in entertainment.

Oh this is such a valid point - haven’t thought about it. Resonates with my experience, too

It’s either normies who are too scared to try (and I can’t hold their hand EVERY step of the way) or occasional casino people.

The marvelous men of LA love to tell me they dabble in web3 too, and when I ask them “so what do you do”, the answer is usually trading. I pretty much shut down the further convo and tell them it’s not my area of interest

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The problem is that normies that get interested in crypto often WANT the casino.

They look at crypto as a way to make money. As long as average annual returns for BTC outperform stocks, that's not going to change.

There are plenty of awesome, nonspeculative uses for crypto today, obviously we're using one right now, but as long as the end goal for someone is to make money they're going to gravitate towards the casino. 

Not a crypto problem imo, a human psychology one.

I like to tell ppl what to do, but I still think there are better ways to bring ppl to the platform. But I kinda gave up on FC for now...

i agree! i feel like the space has come a super far way, and i'm down to help people how i can... but it's been hard AF to also find ways to keep my own cup full

Have recently started using Farcaster and can totally agree with this, I'm still in my starting days and there's some learning curve with this compared to your traditional SM apps

some ppl have stopped on-boarding ppl to fc for exactly this reason