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It’s pretty incredible how good people are at sniffing out resource scarcity and “status” markers People absolutely speedrunning the: “whoa Farcaster is pretty cool” ⬇️ “wait why don’t I have an active badge” ⬇️ “kill Dan and everyone he puts on the auto-follow list” cycle rn
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could just kill the auto-follow list instead! good critique from @miasoarez on X
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idk mia, but her memes seem funny and there's prob a reason it was posted on X instead of here. That said, I generally think this misses the mark in terms of where the conditions for growth came from in the first place and is fairly unhelpful w its proposed solutions. (more to follow)
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I said this in another thread, but it's an unhealthy sign that ppl feel like they have to pull punches out of self-interest, and criticize out-of-FC or with newly created anon accounts. Really eager to hear and discuss your proposed solutions!
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I think there's 2 related, but entirely separate anxieties that people conflate. 1. Some people explicitly think @dwr.eth will crush them if they criticize Farcaster on Farcaster. I've been here for 2 years and have never seen this happen (to my recollection) (more to follow)
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Dan will absolutely RESPOND to criticism with a cutting, but thoughtful question focused on the specific issue getting complained about - usually something like "what would you tangibly do differently in the same situation?" and I respect the fuck out of that.
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People rarely respond well to that bc they usually realize they don't have a better answer, but sometimes people respond w a great solve and the app integrates it! That's v cool Dan will nerf folks that violate norms and this is an admitted moving target. Compromise is never clean and all lindy systems are emergent.
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2. Some people think if they cast criticism they'll be crushed by other Farcasters or the algo If you cast something people disagree w here, they will tell you in a (usually) thoughtful way This is an emphatically WEIRD thing to experience when the internet and its people have default ignored everywhere else you post
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It might feel like getting attacked, but it isn't (most of the time) and the signal loss via text communication makes it much more likely for someone to respond w some extra anxiety when someone disagrees with them in public (esp if it's a european responding w their characteristically jarring bluntness - love y'all)
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The algo doesn't deprioritize FC critiques (afaik), but a passing Caster is much less likely to engage with a negative Farcaster take on average (especially if its twitter-angry-coded) bc many of us are generally happy being default thoughtfully optimistic.
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That's the community vibe and once you add in a strong dash of "number go up" energy it's pretty obvious how an impartial algo feels partial when it's really a content/audience fit issue. We don't get to choose what people within a community, we just get to discover it through repeated content experiments.
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Anyway - @artlu I think people combine these two "uh oh" feelings into one when it's really a problem of 1. Farcaster is a new place w new vibes so old growth hacks don't work the same and learning is painful/more work for people 2. Dan feels big and scary, but is just aggressively pragmatic (maybe to a fault)
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Thank you for sharing your experience! it's useful for people to hear. I have to confirm that I 100% shared your view, before permissionless signups. I've had to re-question and adjust since then. TL;DR humans are human; we're all still just trying things; choices lead to different outcomes
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I actually think its less a matter of how Dan responds to critique or questions, and more a matter of who Dan listens to for client features, and norm enforcement. A small clique of high follow, long time users have an outsized influence. I feel zero anxiety criticizing Warpcast, Farcaster, the culture, whatever
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I don't think 1 has a big impact, lots of very obvious growth hacks to implement, but the quality of the growth is low (bot users, active user base remains super small). I think what pains people is they've built social graphs elsewhere and the incentive to start fresh here isn't entirely clear yet. It will be one day
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