"Merkle just helps its friends"

How many times do I have to repeat that most users and developers on Farcaster did not know Varun or myself prior to joining Farcaster.

And in some cases have *become* friends because they stuck around early on when no one else cared. We've spent years with this people socializing on this social network. :)

Don't conflate something that's earned / built with cronyism.

Almost 2 years ago a friend snuck me into farcaster even though it was invite only at the time, and shortly after I began meeting a ton of incredible early enthusiasts (including @cojo.eth)

A few weeks into joining I decided to delete Twitter off my phone and make Farcaster my new home, and ever since then I’ve been building alongside the platform through all of the ups and downs

I don’t know Dan and Varun personally, I just have high conviction in MM to figure out how to scale the network to millions+ of users, which is why I’ve stuck around and will continue to be involved for years to come

Most builders here that have a relationship with the Merkle team have a similar story - you simply get out what you put in, regardless of when you joined

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so you’re saying that if you show up and put in effort, even when that effort isn’t with a goal in mind, you’ll be successful on FC?

interesting 🤝

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Well success can be defined in multiple ways, but the easiest way to be "successful" on Farcaster is to put effort into whatever naturally interests you that also happens to benefit the network, and do that for a long period of time

Posting engaging content, building useful tools for people, etc