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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” 

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“wait why don’t I have an active badge”

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“kill Dan and everyone he puts on the auto-follow list”

cycle rn

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.

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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.

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 🤷

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)

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

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 🫡

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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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)

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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!