Farcaster

In retrospect, decentralized social network has been terrible framing for Farcaster.

Two recent frames that are better:

1. Farcaster is an economy — social network + crypto wallets, small but high GDP per capita, h/t @woj.eth @luc 

2. Programmable social — X APIs are dead, Farcaster APIs are constantly getting better, h/t @six 

It's still (mostly) decentralized under the hood, but lean into the things that it's really good at relative to the competition.

my notes on the farcaster rebrand

- wallets and composability are downstream of decentralization, making it an accurate word to describe farcaster.
- "farcaster is an economy" is a weak pitch, imo. it sounds cool but is hard to grasp, which reduces its effectiveness.
- I'm glad dan leaned into crypto as farcaster's main differentiating aspect, it was long overdue. I'm curious to see how warpcast will evolve now.
- decentralization is great. stop making it sound like a bad thing.

thanks for coming to my ted talk

I agree, farcaster as an economy is just too vague. Hard to land it such that it makes sense. 

Programmable social can be worked with.

Unlearning. Full time product manager. Part time builder/tinkerer on farcaster. Bots: @nftsoffc.

programmable social network is quite good