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.

There was a point when Lens was more decentralized than Faracster, but now that has reversed. Hubs was a good choice because IMO without its own network that can be optimized a web3 social network can't scale.

Lens has become more and more centralized.
Wrote some scattered thoughts on this last year https://t.ly/XhBU-

Software developer, open source enthusiast, privacy advocate.

Clear Wallet Open-source privacy focused wallet: https://clear-wallet.flashsoft.eu/


100% I made this point many times: 

`A social network without open signup is a social club, not a social network.`

But we're working on the premise that open signup is at some point part of the design, though clearly, that brings a lot of challenges.

Lens has made this pledge too, but we'll see.

Any social network with a centralized invite system is by definition not decentralized. :)