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Ivy
@ivy
think i finally have a coherent model for how platforms typically fail to retain a lot of the initial buzz once the buzz-generating event is over the 'one group chat' turns into many, and 'focus on the product/protocol' always overshadows 'hire community management to keep the vibes' the extractive nature of FC dynamics makes it even harder here, b/c new ppl looking around don't see what's been extracted from the 'lobby', the group chats or the social clubs and often bounce still think the channel changes are the only sustainable way to do things but i always wonder what clubhouse or FC would have looked like if there was 'founding community manager' hired alongside 'founding engineers'
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
A community manager won’t solve retention. It will help on the margin, but Farcaster has never had a unique social primitive to fuel growth. That’s what drives growth and retention (“only on Farcaster”). Clubhouse had that for a bit but then Twitter Spaces. There’s a reason no scaled social network has been built in 10 years other than TikTok (which spent $1B).
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christin
@christin
"unique social primitive" instagram perfected pictures twitter perfected short text tiktok perfected short-form video all platforms built best-in-class tools for both *creation* and *distribution* what do you think is the next social-creative format? to me the ingredients are - short attention span catered - allows users to "make" the thing as well as "share" the thing - some human touch / crypto-authenticity element (@july roc camera?)
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christin
@christin
came back to add why I am hypothesizing crypto(graphy)-authenticity component although the llm bots here are fun i don't think farcaster will be better than twitter at it but what we have are 6K real people who somehow continue to hang around who care about real people connections and builders like @july who care about authenticity in a technical sense as well and farcaster has the crypto rails to make it happen
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