Farcaster

been thinking about channels ever since @ted posted this

how does farcaster reward people for going deeper on a subject? how does it incentivize @matthewb to share about drinking chocolates or @keccers.eth to go deep on her health stack?

basically…i want to replace my reddit searches with farcaster searches

Great thread on a subject that's near and dear to my heart as a reader + writer who favors deep dives and loves Farcaster. It's worth clicking through to read all the comments.

Regarding sustainable incentive structures and business models for deep-dive creative writing: this is a really tough problem that pre-dates blockchain tech. 

I'd love to be free to cast deep-dives here much more frequently, out of the sheer love of it. I don't need rewards as a *motivator*. 

BUT: that takes a lot of time and effort. Like most creators, I have to *buy* the time to do that work. 

How do we solve *that* problem? 

After years on Patreon and Substack, I'm confident that for the vast majority of creators, the answer is not "subscriptions" or "crowdfunding." At least not in their current incarnations. 

All that said, I think FC is the right place to experiment.

Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

i become more bearish of patreon with every passing year

Same. What's wrong with Patreon from a creator's perspective? Well the list is long...lol. For the curious, I usually recommend starting here:

How to Compete with Patreon (Sep 2023)
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html

Patreon and the Future (Aug 2024)

Same. What's wrong with Patreon from a creator's perspective? Well the list is long...lol. For the curious, I usually recommend starting here:

How to Compete with Patreon (Sep 2023)
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html

Patreon and the Future (Aug 2024)
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1852315.html