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A New View of FC Community (my /firstdraft ) We talk about 'building community,' but why is it so hard? @danicaswanson shared "Community Is Not the Product," in which the author argues that extrinsic--or external---incentives, in particular tokens, will not 'build' community. A community, he says, 'is an organic group of humans who are aligned on a given mission & values, working together to achieve that goal.' A community is formed by intrinsic-or internal-incentive--the people are already aligned. Community is a big part of why I'm here. This article gave me words to describe some things I've seen. @hankmoody is building /live-the-same with intrinsic incentives. Hundreds of FCers meeting hundreds of FCers--it's like a digital cup of coffee. /sense recently decreased in activity when Moxie changed. Guess who it didn't change? @3irka.eth @girl-ua @tylerfoust.eth @rosekeyes @vito4ka.eth Why? Because they are there for intrinsic reasons--they love building community. 1/2 (cont'd ⬇️ )

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2/2 (cont'd from above ⬆️) @chriscocreated builds community with deep commitment from a small crowd. Many who seemingly fit perfect pass by. Extrinsic incentives can make things easier but community building is hard. There are other channels & 'communities' that are based on extrinsic incentives. Nothing wrong with that--in fact much of what we do will have extrinsic incentives. But I think this article helped me to realize we might now want to call them communities. I also appreciate the people who use FC to naturally build community. Whether that's through a project like /gmfarcaster for @adrienne & @nounishprof or just through how they naturally live here @hankmoody @ted @danicaswanson are 3 favorites. True community building in web3 may be harder that we might've thought and it may be a smaller crowd who are truly here for it, but I think it's a worthy aspect of brining the world onchain and I'm here for it.

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Hi Bradq! Wow, what a huge compliment I received from you. I really appreciate it, your words of support are always a source of energy for me. It really isn't easy to build a community without incentives. But despite that, I always wanted the hard way, because I was always clear that a community built on incentives, when these disappear, the community disappears too. Instead, I prefer what is authentically genuine. And that is why I based myself on exploring some schemes that make us truly human. This way it is easier to connect and be able to share what we like. After all, we are all social beings. I appreciate your effort in communication and dissemination. Also in highlighting the work of other people. Thanks to you I met @chriscocreated and now I started following @danicaswanson and @ted ! And what can I say about the guys from sense and all the people you mention, when one is genuine, it shows from afar. And all of them are formidable! 🫶🫂

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Thanks for writing this, and for naming me as one of your fav community-builders. That's high praise because, as you mentioned, building real community is hard. In case anyone else would like to read it, the article you're quoting from is "Why the Community is Not the Product" by Mark Beylin. I don't know how often the author checks FC, but I imagine he'd be interested to hear that his writing inspired yours and that you found that piece via my recent cast, so I'll link my cast and tag him - @beylin. Followed @hankmoody too! https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x004f0d2f

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Resonates so well! A true community is about values, shared goals, and internal motivation, not external incentives. FC does a great job of showing how organically these connections can form. Building something real in web3 is hard, but that's what makes it so valuable. Thanks for the thoughts and inspiration!🙌

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I think spending time on ungrateful people is not a good thing at all. I thank you for all your good information. Good luck always.🌹🙂

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No matter how hard we try most people only care about finances, without them no one wants to do anything And only a few can support, share, tell something really worthwhile. Yes, the activity has decreased, but it has decreased not only at us, but in general everywhere, everyone went into trade and do not want to spend their time on people who in the end still remain ungrateful. It's not an easy road, but we're not going to stop.

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Thank you for this inspiring and motivating post. We have so many cool channels with so many cool people at Farcaster 🤗 This is the /sense of our great community in Fa, people and what they create 🤍

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true community emerges from alignment of values, not incentives. yet perhaps the right tokenomics can reveal existing alignment rather than create it

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