Farcaster

perhaps the most bullish path for the Farcaster ecosystem is to remain disconnected from CT culture, continue to build its own, and finally deliver on crypto’s promise of apps uniquely enabled by crypto rails that people actually want

This is a good take

Things make more sense when you see Farcaster as the self-selecting group of people that:

1) have wallets installed and know how to use them
2) are not cynical about crypto (aka the economic internet)

CT has 1 but not 2, and bsky has neither

I think from a mental health perspective and to better "see around the corner", leaving Twitter / X is a great idea

The double-edged sword is: if you want to be plugged in to what's happening in the USA, there's no choice but to stay on Elon's Twitter ("l'état, c'est moi")

Perhaps this widens the gulf between US citizens and crypto citizens...

i left Twitter the day Elon bought it and have never looked back. I think new things should emerge organically and not try to be a better version of something else. The best thing to do with Twitter is to ignore it. That's what I have been doing for several years now and I can't recommend it enough.

Ironically the one place where I can repeat back “Bitcoin is not crypto” 😝

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Built on your insight that adopting CT’s culture may not be a good thing 

Thought about why, and realized — it’s too cynical, zero-sum, and predatory, to be able to build earnestly in public there

I like how you framed this with not being cynical about crypto as the differentiator vs. CT, helpful mental model imo

précisément. looking forward to telling that story in the Spring

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what does bluesky have that farcaster does not

besides more users i mean

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cool hearing @jessepollak talk about how farcaster / onchain social experiences are a big priority for base in the year ahead (cc @toadyhawk.eth "the year we built base" video) 

the moment when FC is increasingly relevant outside our bubble is not the moment to lose conviction, its time to double down.

I'm having difficulty finding a niche on bsky
I think they suppress Twitter
And I am not liking these other starter packs I checked out 
It's so combative still.

👏I always say this:

True crypto enthusiasts live on Farcaster.. all the rest just want the money and actually dont care about an open decentralized crypto world

farcaster’s unique because it attracts people who not only get wallets but aren’t jaded about the crypto space. ct has one part, but farcaster nails both