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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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100% this group is storming so hard rn (and that's a feature not a bug)
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is your solution: see and embrace the different vibes (don't mis-see the wrong patterns) ?
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My solution is Farcaster is gonna end up being what people want it to be no matter how many cast threads we write If it's shitcoins, it's shitcoins. If it's nerd talk, it's nerd talk. I'm building Seemore stuff to help manifest more of the creation focused vibes that might make FC actually self sustaining.
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I love that, building new tools, clients, spaces, discovery mechanisms, communities, or whatever else on top of and within farcaster is how we can voice our preferences or make possible what we want to exist here. I just hope we have a Farcaster that ends up being many extremely different things to all those people.
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