I quit a large audience on Twitter and joined Farcaster a year ago as a direct replacement. I didn't know Varun or Dan, and indeed, anyone else active on Farcaster at the time. While "the list" made sense early on, it should be opt-in recommendations now - the engagement inequality is very real. 

This is made worse by the hyperfinancialization, where a handful of those people are incentivized to be very active, while a vast majority of the rest are bots. (IMO, as a casual observer nowadays) Farcaster right now should be aggressively focused on social values over financial values (and yes, this is a very direct contradiction and trade-off) - in design, engineering, and most importantly marketing. Unless the terminal addressable market target is degens, which is fair enough.

premature financialization ruins good products: in social & gaming. remember, even defi products waited for few yrs to release token after they reached pretty good pmf & adoption (uniswap, compound, etc etc). 

Early cycles: ppl underestimate financialization
Late cycles: ppl overestimate financialization 

no, a token does not solve all ur problems, nor does a L2/Alt L1