Cameron Armstrong on Warpcast

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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'm not on the FC team, but have been here for 2 years now - so that's where the following opinions are coming from. 0. Already addressed my thoughts on the auto-follow list elsewhere. This seems to be the main complaint tbh (and is a reasonable one imo) and the rest sort of seems like venting

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1. The only reason we've made it this far is explicitly BECAUSE it is literally someone's app with all the opinionated decisions that come with it. The early community was a curated vibe that became cozy + thoughtful enough to start attracting other likeminded folks.

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It's also important to note that the creators of the FC cozy vibe was largely NOT crypto twitter elite who were "early" to Farcaster. Most of those folks w the earliest FID's churned immediately to go back to twitter. They wanted to broadcast, not to vibe - simple as 🤷

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2. Growth at all costs isn't the goal They're listening to devs who want more users to build for, but it's more nuanced. qDAU growth is what matters. Every "mistake" mentioned is an explicit experiment to reduce noise and boost signal. (ie "Are you willing to bear costs?" is a blunt proxy for pro-social signals)

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3. Capping actions I assume refers to limiting giving warps in a day? I think that's just classic ex-coinbase anti-money laundering protection. 4. I have no idea what the "better ways" to address automation/bots could possibly be tbh if you are advocating explicitly for a completely neutral client

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5. And finally (i'm so sorry) The protocol is still neutral(-ish) and *deep breath* you can always build or commission your own client 🫡

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I said this in a gated chat but until alternative clients have more users, warpcast = farcaster. I appreciate people's strong feelings about having an opinionated network, attracting qDAU vs. growth at all costs, high signal low noise etc. But not sure I agree (as a user here for 1 month, 1 week) that Farcaster 1/x

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I don't believe I said that Farcaster is most valuable as a strong community? But since we're here, I think Warpcast (and as you point out FC) only survives to steady state if it maintains a strong core aka atomic network It's still crazy early and we're barely 6 weeks past first contact w the "outside world"

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Channels were the first experiment with putting different community vibes near each other and there's more experiments coming. Frames are a similar experiment in activity/value expression I also agree on Warpcast = FC. That's why I'm not building a client yet. I think we're 12 months away from that being viable.

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On signal vs noise, I live in this app (for better or worse). I think the quantity of (how I define) signal is roughly the same, maybe a little bit higher than 2 months ago, but the quantity of "everything else" has 20X-ed. That's tough to manage (esp if FC didn't plan on this growth)

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I won't assume how you define spam, but while it might not explicitly bother you I can say with confidence the ratio of useful/not useful to me is v different now so that might be what you're experiencing (or we might just like different things)

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